The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 55
“Now,” said the medicine-man, “when we get home, the two witch-sisters will come to congratulate you, and will pretend not to know anything of the trouble that befell you, and when you see them you must invite _them_ to a game of _mah-khúr_.”
Who acts: medicine man, we, two witch sisters, trouble, you · What happens: say, get, come, congratulate, pretend, not know · To what, where: you, anything, sisters · 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 (medicine man, we, two witch sisters, trouble), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 7 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 medicine | punct |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 get | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sisters | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 sisters | nummod |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sisters | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 witch | punct |
| 21 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 congratulate | mark |
| 25 | congratulate | congratulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 come | xcomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 congratulate | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pretend | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pretend | cc |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 pretend | aux |
| 30 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 come | conj |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 know | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 know | mark |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 pretend | xcomp |
| 34 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 know | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 trouble | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 trouble | det |
| 37 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 anything | nmod |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 befell | nsubj |
| 39 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 trouble | acl:relcl |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 befell | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 invite | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 invite | cc |
| 43 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 see | advmod |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 see | nsubj |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 invite | advcl |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 see | obj |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 invite | nsubj |
| 48 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 invite | aux |
| 49 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 50 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 them | punct |
| 51 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 invite | obj |
| 52 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 them | punct |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 game | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 game | det |
| 55 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 invite | obl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 khúr | case |
| 57 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 60 khúr | punct |
| 58 | mah | mah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 khúr | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 mah | punct |
| 60 | khúr | khúr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 game | nmod |
| 61 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 49 invite | punct |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 63 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the medicine man | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | we | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | the two witch sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | congratulate in a quote | to-infinitive | the two witch sisters not said here | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pretend in a quote | future | the two witch sisters not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not know in a quote | to-infinitive | the two witch sisters not said here | anything of the trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | befall in a quote | past | the trouble | you | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | see in a quote | present | you | sisters = sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | invite in a quote | must | you | sisters = sister | to a game of mah khúr | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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