The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 31
“Then come, and we will play a game together, and with that I will prove you.”
Who acts: you, we, Kahp · What happens: come, play, prove · To what, where: game, 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, we, Kahp), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 play | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 play | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 play | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 play | aux |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 play | obj |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 play | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prove | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prove | cc |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 prove | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 prove | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 prove | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 prove | aux |
| 18 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 prove | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play in a quote | future | we | a game | together property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||
| 3 | prove in a quote | future | Kahp óo yoo = kahp | you | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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