The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 62
At last, when they were about to start home, he said: “Sisters, let us come to the sand-hill to-morrow to play a little game.”
Who acts: sisters, Man, us · What happens: be, start, say, let, come, play · To what, where: last, us, sand hill, little 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 (sisters, Man, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 about | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 about | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 about | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 about | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 start | mark |
| 9 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 about | xcomp |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 start | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 about | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sisters | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sisters | punct |
| 16 | Sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 let | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sisters | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 hill | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hill | det |
| 23 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hill | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sand | punct |
| 25 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 morrow | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 to | punct |
| 28 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 play | mark |
| 30 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 game | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 game | amod |
| 33 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 play | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 about | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sisters = sister | last | about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | Sisters | us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the sand hill | to morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location to morrow=Destination | |||
| 6 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | a little game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
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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