The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 7
You must know that these witches have dreadful appetites, and that there is nothing in the world of which they are so fond as boiled baby.
Who acts: You, witches, witch · What happens: know, have, be, boil · To what, where: dreadful appetites, nothing, world · 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 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, witches, witch), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 witches | det |
| 6 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 appetites | amod |
| 9 | appetites | appetite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nothing | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 is | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 nothing | cop |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 know | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nothing | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 fond | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fond | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fond | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 fond | advmod |
| 24 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nothing | amod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 baby | case |
| 26 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 baby | amod |
| 27 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fond | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | this witches | dreadful appetites | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | You not said here | nothing | the world | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | witch | as boiled baby; which obl; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | boil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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