The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 68
When you get home, give your wife the pine-seeds, but you must eat the piñons.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, give, eat · To what, where: pine seeds, wife, piñons
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seeds | det |
| 10 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeds | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pine | punct |
| 12 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 eat | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 eat | aux |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 piñons | det |
| 19 | piñons | piñon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eat | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give | imperative | you not said here | the pine seeds | your wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient seed=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat | must | you | the piñons | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piñon=Patient |
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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