The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 24
Which of us is right, the one who observes Sunday and lets his _peons_ rest then, or he who does not?”
Who acts: one, man · What happens: be, observe, let, not do · To what, where: _ peons
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 (one, man), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 right | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Which | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 observes | nsubj |
| 10 | observes | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 observes | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lets | cc |
| 13 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 observes | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 peons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 peons | amod |
| 16 | peons | peon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lets | obj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 rest | punct |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 observes | conj |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 right | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 does | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 does | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 does | nsubj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 does | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | conj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 does | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 does | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | then | Which of us nsubj; the one appos; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | observe | present | the one | sunday | rest conj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | let | present | the one not said here | man's _ peons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not do | present | man | who nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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