The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 46
Here, take this acorn-cup and carry him some corn-meal and water.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: acorn cup, _
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 take | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cup | det |
| 5 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cup | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 acorn | punct |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carry | cc |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 meal | det |
| 12 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meal | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 corn | punct |
| 14 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 water | cc |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meal | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this acorn cup | here | some corn meal and water obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cup=Theme meal=Destination | ||
| 2 | carry | present | you not said here | _ | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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