The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 39
He thought, “Ah, little bird, if you could speak I would ask you where there is water, for I am fainting with thirst, and dare not eat, for that would make it worse!”
Who acts: water, you, that · What happens: think, speak, ask, be, faint, not dare · To what, where: you, bird · 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 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 (water, you, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 5 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 bird | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ah | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 speak | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 speak | aux |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | aux |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 speak | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | obj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 is | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | advcl |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fainting | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 fainting | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fainting | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fainting | aux |
| 26 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 ask | advcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 thirst | case |
| 28 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fainting | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dare | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dare | cc |
| 31 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 speak | conj |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 dare | advmod |
| 33 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 dare | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 make | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 make | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 make | aux |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 dare | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 make | obj |
| 40 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 make | xcomp |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | water | little bird ccomp | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | would | water | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | faint in a quote | present · progressive | water | with thirst | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not dare in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not eat in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | make in a quote | would | that | bird | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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