The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 50
Now they will either forsake their gods and serve us, or die like the animals, thinking nothing of their past or future.”
Who acts: people · What happens: forsake, serve, die, think · To what, where: gods, us, nothing
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 (people), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 forsake | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forsake | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 forsake | aux |
| 4 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 forsake | advmod |
| 5 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gods | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forsake | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 serve | cc |
| 9 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forsake | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 serve | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 die | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 die | cc |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forsake | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 animals | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animals | det |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 die | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinking | punct |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 die | advcl |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 thinking | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 past | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 past | nmod:poss |
| 22 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 future | cc |
| 24 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forsake | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 forsake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | future | people | people's gods | now | either property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | serve | present | people not said here | us | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | people not said here | like the animals | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | people not said here | nothing of people's past future | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=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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