The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 53
But tell me--is there no way to open the spring?”
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be, open · To what, where: me, way · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 tell | cc |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 open | mark |
| 10 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spring | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 open | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | no way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | you not said here | spring | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/25/53/