The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 88
“Friends boys, if an old Wolf comes along and asks if you have seen us, don’t tell her, will you?”
Who acts: old Wolf, you, Friends boys · What happens: come along, ask, see, not tell · To what, where: us, treachery · 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 (old Wolf, you, Friends boys), 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 boys | punct |
| 2 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boys | compound |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 comes | mark |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Wolf | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Wolf | amod |
| 8 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boys | parataxis |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 comes | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asks | cc |
| 12 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 comes | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 asks | ccomp |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boys | punct |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tell | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 tell | advmod |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 will | punct |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 tell | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 will | nsubj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | a old Wolf | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | a old Wolf not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | you | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Friends boys | treachery | 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.
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