The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 63
If she comes this way, asking about us, do not tell her, will you?”
Who acts: tooth, you · What happens: come, ask, not tell · To what, where: way, tooth · 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 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 (tooth, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 comes | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asking | punct |
| 7 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comes | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 asking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 tell | advmod |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 will | punct |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 will | nsubj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | tooth | this way | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | tooth not said here | about us | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about we=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | imperative · do-support | you not said here | tooth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/63/