The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 34
You may roam to the north and to the south and to the west, but never to the east” (and therefore not back to Isleta).
Who acts: You · What happens: roam · To what, where: north
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 roam | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 roam | aux |
| 3 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 north | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 north | det |
| 6 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roam | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 south | cc |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 south | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 south | det |
| 10 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 north | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 west | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 west | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 west | det |
| 14 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 north | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 east | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 east | cc |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 east | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 east | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 east | det |
| 20 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roam | obl |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 east | punct |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 back | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 back | cc |
| 24 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 26 back | advmod |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 back | advmod |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 roam | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Isleta | case |
| 28 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 back | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 back | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | may | You | the north and the south and the west | to the east | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to north=Destination |
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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