The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 77
“Well,” said he, “I will do this if you will give me half the value of the whole village.”
Who acts: Cacique, you · What happens: say, do, give, value · To what, where: this, value, Cacique, whole village · 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 (Cacique, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 do | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 20 value | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 value | det |
| 20 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 village | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 village | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 village | amod |
| 24 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 value | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cacique | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | Cacique | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | half value of the whole village | Cacique | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient value=Theme | |||
| 4 | value in a quote | the whole village | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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