The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 76
“Now let each tribe of you choose from it one who is young and strong, to give help to him who has fed us.
Who acts: you · What happens: let, choose, be, give, feed · To what, where: tribe, help, pueblo, us
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 tribe | det |
| 5 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 choose | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 choose | nsubj |
| 8 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tribe | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nsubj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 choose | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 young | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 young | cop |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 strong | cc |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 young | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fed | aux |
| 25 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 give | parataxis |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 fed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | each tribe | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme | |||
| 2 | choose in a quote | present | you | each tribe not said here | from one tribe | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme from one=Source | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | who nsubj; young property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | help | pueblo | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | feed in a quote | present · perfect · passive | us | who nsubj:pass | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient we=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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