The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 67
“Take these seeds of the pine-tree and these piñon-nuts which I have brought for you, and be very careful of them.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, bring, be · To what, where: seeds, pine tree
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 seeds | det |
| 4 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pine | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeds | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 nuts | cc |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 nuts | det |
| 12 | piñon | piñon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nuts | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 piñon | punct |
| 14 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tree | conj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tree | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 careful | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 careful | cc |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 careful | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 careful | advmod |
| 25 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Take | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 careful | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | this seeds of the pine tree and this piñon nuts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the pine tree and this piñon nuts | for you; I nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | of nuts = nut; careful property | 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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