The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 71
You must never go to the river, so you will suffer with thirst and drag yourselves in the dust all the days of your life.”
Who acts: You · What happens: not go, suffer, drag · To what, where: river, yourselves, dust
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 | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffer | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 suffer | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 suffer | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffer | aux |
| 12 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 thirst | case |
| 14 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffer | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drag | cc |
| 16 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 suffer | conj |
| 17 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 drag | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 dust | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dust | det |
| 20 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drag | obl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 days | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 days | det |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drag | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 days | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | must | You | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | suffer | future | you | with thirst | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | drag | infinitive | you not said here | yourselves | the dust | day | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=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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