The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 30
“Surely,” said Kahp-too-óo-yoo, “if there is any way to prove myself, I will do it gladly, for truly I am your friend.”
Who acts: Kahp, way · What happens: say, be, prove, do · To what, where: Kahp, way, friend · 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 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 (Kahp, way), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Surely | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Surely | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kahp | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 yoo | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 too | punct |
| 10 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yoo | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 óo | punct |
| 12 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Kahp | list |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 is | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | advcl |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 prove | mark |
| 21 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 way | acl |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 prove | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 26 do | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 friend | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 truly | case |
| 31 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 35 friend | obl |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 friend | nsubj |
| 33 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 friend | cop |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 friend | nmod:poss |
| 35 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Kahp óo yoo | surely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | any way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | prove in a quote | to-infinitive | any way not said here | Kahp óo yoo = kahp | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | Kahp óo yoo = kahp | way | gladly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Kahp óo yoo = kahp | your friend | your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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