The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 22
There are but few True Believers left, and the bad ones are trying to use us up.”
Who acts: bad ones, few True Believers · What happens: be, leave, try, use up · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bad ones, few True Believers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 trying | advcl |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Believers | amod |
| 5 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Believers | amod |
| 6 | Believers | Believer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trying | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trying | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ones | det |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trying | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 trying | aux |
| 14 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 use | mark |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 trying | xcomp |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 use | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 use | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 trying | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | the bad ones not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | few True Believers | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | present · progressive | the bad ones | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | use up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bad ones not said here | us | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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