The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 48
Three weeks ago I came to that spring and thought how nice it would be to stop up the spring, and how the people would swear if their gods did not send rain.
Who acts: I, river, people, gods · What happens: come, think, be, swear, not send · To what, where: rain · 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 (I, river, people, gods), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 spring | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 spring | det |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 nice | advmod |
| 12 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 stop | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stop | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stop | mark |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 stop | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spring | det |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 swear | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 swear | cc |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 swear | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 swear | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 swear | aux |
| 27 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 send | mark |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 gods | nmod:poss |
| 30 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 send | nsubj |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 send | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 send | advmod |
| 33 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 swear | advcl |
| 34 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 send | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | spring | ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I not said here | nice property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | would | river | spring | stop property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | swear | would | the people | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not send a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | people's gods | rain | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
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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