The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 29
“Friend Kahp-too-óo-yoo, now I will prove you if you are truly my friend, for I do not think it.”
Who acts: you, friend · What happens: friend, prove, be, not think · To what, where: Kahp, you, friend, share
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, friend), 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 Friend | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Friend | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kahp | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 yoo | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 7 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yoo | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 óo | punct |
| 9 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Friend | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prove | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 prove | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 prove | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 prove | aux |
| 14 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Friend | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 prove | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 friend | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 friend | cop |
| 19 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 21 friend | advmod |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prove | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 think | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 think | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 think | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 think | advmod |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 prove | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 think | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | friend in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Kahp | óo yoo obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prove in a quote | future | friend | you | now | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my friend | my nmod:poss; truly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | friend | share | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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