The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 34
Get down from that burro, and let me have her and her colt, for now all that was yours is mine, as we agreed.”
Who acts: you, me, all, we · What happens: get down, let, have, be, agree · To what, where: burro, me, bad, yours, mine
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, me, all, 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 burro | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 burro | det |
| 5 | burro | burro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 colt | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 colt | nmod:poss |
| 14 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 her | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 yours | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 yours | mark |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 yours | advmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 yours | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 yours | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 yours | cop |
| 21 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 let | conj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 mine | cop |
| 23 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 yours | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 agreed | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 agreed | mark |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 agreed | nsubj |
| 27 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | imperative | you not said here | that burro | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | me not said here | bad | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | all | yours | now | that nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 5 | is a | present | mine | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | agree speech: agree | past | we | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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