The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 81
“Great _Kah-báy-deh_ [Man of Power], how comes it that you are up here in such a condition, while your people at home are suffering and dying for rain, and few are left to meet you if you return?
Who acts: you, people, few · What happens: come, be, suffer, die, leave, meet · To what, where: deh, condition, few, you, Great Kah báy deh
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, people, few), 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 | _ | 8 deh | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deh | amod |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Great | punct |
| 4 | Kah | Kah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 deh | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kah | punct |
| 6 | báy | báy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deh | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 báy | punct |
| 8 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 deh | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Man | punct |
| 11 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deh | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Power | case |
| 13 | Power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | nmod |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 Man | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 comes | advmod |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 deh | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 comes | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 here | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 here | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 here | cop |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 23 here | advmod |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 comes | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 condition | case |
| 25 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 condition | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 condition | det |
| 27 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 here | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 suffering | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 suffering | mark |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 people | nmod:poss |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 suffering | nsubj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 people | nmod |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 suffering | aux |
| 35 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 comes | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 dying | cc |
| 37 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 suffering | conj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 rain | case |
| 39 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dying | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 left | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 left | cc |
| 42 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 left | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 left | aux:pass |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 suffering | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 meet | mark |
| 46 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 left | xcomp |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 meet | obj |
| 48 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 return | mark |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 return | nsubj |
| 50 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 meet | advcl |
| 51 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 deh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | deh | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | such condition | here property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | suffer in a quote | present · progressive | your people at home | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | gerund | your people at home not said here | for rain | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for rain=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | present · passive | few | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | few not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | return a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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