The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 94
“I know nothing about these things,” she said, “but I will do what I can, and the Trues will help me.”
Who acts: Agostin, Trues · What happens: know, say, do, help · To what, where: nothing, Agostin · 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 (Agostin, Trues), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 can | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 help | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Trues | det |
| 24 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 help | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 help | aux |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Agostin | nothing | about this things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Agostin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | Agostin | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | future | the Trues | Agostin | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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