The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 25
“Now, Brother Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob,” said the eldest sister, “we want to amuse ourselves a little, so let us have a game of _mah-khúr_.
Who acts: Brother Young Man, we, us · What happens: say, want, amuse, let, have · To what, where: ourselves, us, game · 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 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 (Brother Young Man, we, us), 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 | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Man | compound |
| 5 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Man | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Young | punct |
| 7 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Man | punct |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 said | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Embraces | punct |
| 11 | Embraces | embrace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Corncob | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Corncob | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 a | punct |
| 15 | Corncob | corncob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Embraces | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Corncob | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Corncob | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sister | det |
| 20 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 sister | amod |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 want | nsubj |
| 25 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 amuse | mark |
| 27 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 want | xcomp |
| 28 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 amuse | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 little | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 amuse | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 let | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 let | advmod |
| 33 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 want | parataxis |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 let | obj |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 let | xcomp |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 game | det |
| 37 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 khúr | case |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 khúr | punct |
| 40 | mah | mah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 khúr | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 mah | punct |
| 42 | khúr | khúr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 game | nmod |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 let | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brother Young Man | now | Who nsubj; Embraces nsubj; the eldest sister nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | amuse not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | ourselves | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a game of mah khúr | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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