The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 21
And whichever gets the voice of the majority, he shall be the winner, and shall take all that is of the other.”
Who acts: whichever, man, that · What happens: get, be, take · To what, where: voice, winner
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 (whichever, man, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gets | cc |
| 2 | whichever | whichever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 majority | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 majority | det |
| 8 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 winner | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 winner | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 winner | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 winner | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 winner | det |
| 14 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | parataxis |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 other | det:predet |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 other | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 other | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | whichever | the voice of the majority | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | shall | man | the winner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | shall | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | that | other 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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