The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 94
“If you think we are the stronger, give us the bottom, where we can work more, and you go to the top.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: think, be, give, work, go · To what, where: bottom, us, top · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 think | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | advcl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 stronger | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stronger | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stronger | det |
| 8 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bottom | det |
| 13 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 work | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 work | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 work | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 work | aux |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | conj |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 work | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 top | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 top | det |
| 26 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | we | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the bottom | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient bottom=Theme | |||
| 4 | work in a quote | can | we | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | present | you | the top | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location |
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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