The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 20
To-morrow, be ready about breakfast-time, and we will go out into the public road and ask the first three men we meet which of us is right.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, go out, ask, meet · To what, where: public road, first three men
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 (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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 breakfast | punct |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 19 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 road | amod |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ask | cc |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 men | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 men | amod |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 men | nummod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ask | obj |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 meet | nsubj |
| 28 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 men | acl:relcl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 right | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 which | obl |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 right | cop |
| 33 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 meet | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | time | to morrow; ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go out | future | we | the public road | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | we not said here | the first three men | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | meet | present | we | the first three men not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | which of us nsubj; right property | tree rules |
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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