The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 75
“Son, I will give you the clothes you must wear when you are in the medicine-house for the contest of power”; and he gave Agostin four dark-blue breech-clouts and some moccasins for himself and the three other good young men, and a black _manta_ (robe) and pair of moccasins for his mother.
Who acts: Son, you, heart · What happens: give, wear, be, contest · To what, where: clothes, you, medicine house, four blue breech clouts, Agostin, power
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 (Son, you, heart), 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 | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 2 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clothes | det |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 wear | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wear | aux |
| 12 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 house | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 house | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 house | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 18 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 medicine | punct |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wear | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 contest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 contest | det |
| 23 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 power | case |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 contest | nmod |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 contest | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 gave | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gave | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | nsubj |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | conj |
| 31 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | iobj |
| 32 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 clouts | nummod |
| 33 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 blue | amod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 dark | punct |
| 35 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 clouts | amod |
| 36 | breech | breech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 clouts | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 breech | punct |
| 38 | clouts | clout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gave | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 moccasins | cc |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 moccasins | det |
| 41 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 clouts | conj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 himself | case |
| 43 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 moccasins | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 men | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 men | det |
| 46 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 men | nummod |
| 47 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 men | amod |
| 48 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 men | amod |
| 49 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 men | amod |
| 50 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 clouts | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 manta | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 manta | cc |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 manta | det |
| 54 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 manta | amod |
| 55 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 manta | compound |
| 56 | manta | manta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | parataxis |
| 57 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 56 manta | punct |
| 58 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 59 robe | punct |
| 59 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 manta | appos |
| 60 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 59 robe | punct |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 pair | cc |
| 62 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 manta | conj |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 moccasins | case |
| 64 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 pair | nmod |
| 65 | for | for | ADP | _ | 67 mother | case |
| 66 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 mother | nmod:poss |
| 67 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 moccasins | nmod |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | Son | the clothes | you | I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clothes=Theme | ||
| 2 | wear in a quote | must | you | the clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | the medicine house | for the contest of power | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give | past | heart | four blue breech clouts and some moccasins for heart and the three other good young men | Agostin | a black _ manta and pair of moccasins for heart's mother parataxis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent agostin=Recipient clout=Theme | ||
| 5 | contest in a quote | power | nom contest «event transitive»: of=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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