The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 19
Take of this deer and cook and eat; and carry a part to your house, as if you had killed it yourself.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, cook, eat, carry, kill · To what, where: part, house, you
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: who acts (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 deer | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 deer | det |
| 4 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cook | cc |
| 6 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eat | cc |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 cook | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 carry | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carry | cc |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 part | det |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 killed | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 killed | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 killed | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 killed | aux |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 carry | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 killed | obj |
| 24 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 killed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | of this deer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of deer=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cook | infinitive | you not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | eat | infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | carry | infinitive | a part | your house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme to house=Destination | ||||
| 5 | kill a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | you | yourself obl; part obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer it=Result |
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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