The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 36
“I see nothing but to play the _gallo_ race; and because we have no horses[81] we will ride this arm of the pine-tree--first I will ride, and then you.”
Who acts: false friend, we · What happens: see, play, have, ride · To what, where: nothing, gallo, horses, arm, 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 (false friend, we), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 play | cc |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gallo | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 gallo | punct |
| 10 | gallo | gallo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 play | obj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 race | punct |
| 12 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 play | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 have | cc |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 horses | det |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 21 81 | punct |
| 21 | 81 | 81 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 horses | appos |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 21 81 | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 ride | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 ride | aux |
| 25 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | parataxis |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 arm | det |
| 27 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ride | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tree | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 tree | det |
| 30 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tree | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 pine | punct |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 arm | nmod |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 ride | punct |
| 34 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 ride | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 ride | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 ride | aux |
| 37 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 you | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 you | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 you | advmod |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 ride | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | the false friend = friend | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | the false friend = friend not said here | the gallo | race obl | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gallo=Theme | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | no horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride in a quote | future | we | this arm of the pine tree | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ride in a quote | future | the false friend = friend | you | first property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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