The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 17
At last Bad said to Good: “Friend, you say that you have good luck because you keep Sunday, but I’ll bet I am right in _not_ keeping it.”
Who acts: Friend, Good, I · What happens: say, have, keep, bet, be, not keep · To what, where: Good, last Bad, good luck, luck · 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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friend, Good, I), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Bad | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bad | amod |
| 3 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | obl |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Good | case |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Friend | punct |
| 9 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Friend | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 say | nsubj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | ccomp |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 luck | amod |
| 17 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 keep | nsubj |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | advcl |
| 21 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bet | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 bet | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 bet | nsubj |
| 25 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bet | aux |
| 26 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 right | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 right | cop |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bet | ccomp |
| 30 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 34 keeping | mark |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 in | punct |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 keeping | advmod |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 keeping | punct |
| 34 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 right | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 keeping | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 bet | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 bet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good | last Bad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to good=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Friend | you nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Good | good luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | present | Good | sunday | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bet in a quote | future | I | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | I | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not keep in a quote | gerund | I not said here | luck | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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