The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 51
Take only this Toad, and bury it in your floor, _this_ way, and then ask T’hoor-hlóh-ah to come to your house.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, bury, ask, come · To what, where: Toad, floor, T’hoor hlóh, house
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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 Toad | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Toad | det |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bury | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bury | cc |
| 7 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bury | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 floor | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 floor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bury | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bury | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 way | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ask | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ask | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 ask | advmod |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 21 | T’hoor | t'hoor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hlóh | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 T’hoor | punct |
| 23 | hlóh | hlóh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ask | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ask | punct |
| 25 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 1 Take | discourse |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this Toad | this way obl:unmarked | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | Toad | your floor | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in floor=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | T’hoor hlóh | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hlóh=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | you not said here | your house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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