The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 137
For you have been gone these four years, and there was none to give us rain.
What happens: go, be, give · To what, where: you, none, rain, us
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | aux:pass |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 none | csubj |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 years | det |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 none | cop |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 none | acl |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 none | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect · passive | you | year | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | none | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | rain | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient rain=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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