The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 4
Knowest thou why the Bear and the Badger have short tails?
Who acts: Bear · What happens: know, have · To what, where: thou, short tails
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 (Bear), 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 | Knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Knowest | obj |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 have | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bear | det |
| 5 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Badger | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Badger | det |
| 8 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bear | conj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knowest | advcl |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tails | amod |
| 11 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the Bear and the Badger | short tails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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