The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 37
Tell my wife that I am going to the next pueblo to seek work, and that I will not be back until I have earned as much as I have lost in this bet, or more; but tell her not to be sad.”
Who acts: you, wife, I · What happens: tell, go, seek, not be, earn, lose · To what, where: wife, next pueblo, work, much, bet, bad · 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 (you, wife, 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 going | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wife | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pueblo | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pueblo | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pueblo | amod |
| 11 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 seek | mark |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | advcl |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 will | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 will | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 will | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 will | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 back | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 back | cop |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 will | advmod |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 earned | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 earned | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 earned | aux |
| 26 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 back | advcl |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 earned | obj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 lost | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 lost | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 lost | aux |
| 32 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 much | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 bet | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 bet | det |
| 35 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lost | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 more | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 more | cc |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 earned | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 tell | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 tell | cc |
| 41 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 tell | iobj |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 sad | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 sad | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 sad | cop |
| 46 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tell | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | my wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | my wife | the next pueblo | I nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pueblo=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | my wife not said here | work | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | infinitive | back property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | earn | present · perfect | I | much | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lose | present · perfect | I | this bet | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in bet=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | bad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | not is | to-infinitive | you not said here | sad 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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