The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 105
And how can I pay you for your help, and for the tails that you have lost?”
Who acts: I, your · What happens: pay, lose, help · To what, where: you, that
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pay | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 pay | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 help | nmod:poss |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lost | cc |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 tails | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tails | det |
| 14 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pay | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | can | I | you | for your help | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for help=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | present · perfect · passive | that | for the tails; you nsubj | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | help | your | nom help «act 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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