The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 67
If a person should carry her to the door just as the sun is rising, and hold her so that its very first rays would touch the top of her head, she would be well at once, and never could be made sick again.”
Who acts: person, sun, you, first rays · What happens: carry, rise, hold, touch, be, not make · To what, where: stone, door, top
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 (person, sun, you, first rays), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hold | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obl |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 rising | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 rising | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rising | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rising | aux |
| 15 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 carry | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hold | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hold | cc |
| 18 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hold | obj |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 touch | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 rays | nmod:poss |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 first | advmod |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 rays | amod |
| 25 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 touch | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 touch | aux |
| 27 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hold | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 top | det |
| 29 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 touch | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 head | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 head | nmod:poss |
| 32 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 top | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 touch | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 well | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 well | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 well | cop |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 touch | advmod |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 once | case |
| 39 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 37 well | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 made | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 made | cc |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 made | advmod |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 made | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 made | aux:pass |
| 45 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hold | parataxis |
| 46 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 made | xcomp |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 45 made | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hold | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry a condition, not said to happen | should | a person | stone | the door | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to door=Destination | |||
| 2 | rise | present · progressive | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | imperative | you not said here | stone | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | touch | would | sun's first rays | the top of stone's head | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | would | person | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not make | could · passive | again | sick property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 7 | ray | sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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