The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 80
Lend me only a hard stick the length of my outstretched arms, and a horse.”
Who acts: you · What happens: lend · To what, where: hard stick, me
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 | Lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Lend | iobj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 stick | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stick | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stick | amod |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lend | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 length | det |
| 8 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lend | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arms | nmod:poss |
| 11 | outstretched | outstretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 arms | amod |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 length | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 horse | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 horse | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lend | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lend | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | imperative | you not said here | a hard stick | me | the length of my outstretched arms obj; a horse parataxis | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient length=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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