The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 53
Then she went to Sun-Arrow and said: “Friend T’hoor-hlóh-ah, come to my house a little; for I have to talk to you.”
Who acts: girl · What happens: go, say, friend, come, have, talk · To what, where: Sun Arrow, T’hoor hlóh, little, house, you · 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 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 (girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Arrow | case |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Arrow | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sun | punct |
| 7 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Friend | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Friend | punct |
| 12 | Friend | friend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | T’hoor | t'hoor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hlóh | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 T’hoor | punct |
| 15 | hlóh | hlóh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Friend | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Friend | punct |
| 17 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 12 Friend | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Friend | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 little | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 come | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 talk | mark |
| 30 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 have | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 talk | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | girl | Sun Arrow | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to arrow=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | friend in a quote | infinitive | T’hoor hlóh | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | a little | my house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | talk in a quote | to-infinitive | girl not said here | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-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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