The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 27
You must follow me where I break through the line, and your real mother will be coming on the northeast side in a white _manta_ (robe).
Who acts: You, I, real mother · What happens: follow, break, come · To what, where: me, line, northeast side
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 (You, I, real mother), 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 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 break | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 break | nsubj |
| 7 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | advcl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 line | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 line | det |
| 10 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 break | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 coming | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 coming | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mother | amod |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coming | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 coming | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 coming | aux |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 side | det |
| 21 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | compound |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coming | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 manta | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 manta | det |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 manta | amod |
| 26 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 manta | compound |
| 27 | manta | manta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | nmod |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 coming | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 robe | punct |
| 30 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 robe | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | must | You | me | robe parataxis | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | present | I | the line | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through line=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | future · progressive | your real mother | the northeast side in a white _ manta | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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