The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 32
But if you will save your life and be one of us, go home and bring me the hearts of your mother and sister, and I will teach you all our ways, so that you shall be a mighty wizard.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: save, be, go, bring, teach · To what, where: life, one, hearts, me, ways, you
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 save | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 save | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 save | aux |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | advcl |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 one | cc |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 one | cop |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 save | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 save | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hearts | det |
| 20 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bring | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hearts | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sister | cc |
| 25 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mother | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 teach | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 teach | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 teach | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 teach | aux |
| 30 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | advcl |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 teach | iobj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 ways | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 teach | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wizard | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 43 wizard | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 wizard | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 wizard | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 wizard | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 wizard | det |
| 42 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 wizard | amod |
| 43 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 teach | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save a condition, not said to happen | future | you | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | you not said here | one | of us | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | imperative | you not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | the hearts of your mother and sister | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination heart=Theme | |||
| 5 | teach speech: other | future | I | our ways | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 6 | is a | shall | you | a mighty wizard | tree rules |
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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