The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 21
“Oh, we will invite him to play a game of _mah-khúr_, and then we’ll fix him.
Who acts: we, Poo · What happens: invite, play, fix · To what, where: Poo, game
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Poo), 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 | _ | 6 invite | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 invite | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 invite | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 invite | aux |
| 6 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 invite | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 play | mark |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 invite | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 play | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 khúr | case |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 khúr | punct |
| 14 | mah | mah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 khúr | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 mah | punct |
| 16 | khúr | khúr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 game | nmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 play | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fix | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fix | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 fix | advmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 fix | nsubj |
| 22 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fix | aux |
| 23 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 invite | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fix | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite in a quote | future | we | Poo | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Poo not said here | a game of mah khúr | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fix in a quote | future | we | Poo | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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