The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 25
But they will not kill us; all they wish is to take you.
Who acts: people, all · What happens: not kill, wish, be · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, all), 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 | _ | 5 kill | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 kill | advmod |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 take | nsubj:outer |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kill | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | future | people | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | people | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | all | you obj; take 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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