The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 152
And if you eat all your soup without spilling a drop, you shall have the Fawns.”
Who acts: you · What happens: eat, spill, have · To what, where: soup, drop, Fawns
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 eat | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | advcl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 soup | det:predet |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 soup | nmod:poss |
| 7 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 spilling | mark |
| 9 | spilling | spill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 eat | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drop | det |
| 11 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spilling | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fawns | det |
| 17 | Fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your soup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spill | gerund | you not said here | a drop | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drop=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | you | the Fawns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fawn=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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