The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 19
“Roast this,” he said, “and when the people come to thee, give them each two ears, for hereafter there shall always be much corn.”
Who acts: man, people, hereafter · What happens: roast, say, come, give, be, corn · To what, where: this, thee, two ears, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people, hereafter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Roast | punct |
| 2 | Roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Roast | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Roast | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Roast | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 come | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 thee | case |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 come | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 ears | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 ears | nummod |
| 22 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 give | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hereafter | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 hereafter | case |
| 25 | hereafter | hereafter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 corn | nsubj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 hereafter | advmod |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 corn | aux |
| 28 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 30 much | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 much | cop |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 corn | amod |
| 31 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast in a quote | infinitive | this | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | the people | thee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | the people not said here | each two ears | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient ear=Theme | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | infinitive | always, much property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | corn in a quote | shall | hereafter | always | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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