The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 2
You will see the connection when you remember that the Moon disappears every month; and I should judge that the following myth means that the Storm-King steals her.
Who acts: You, Moon, I, following myth, Storm King · What happens: see, remember, disappear, judge, follow, mean · To what, where: connection, myth · 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, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Moon, I, following myth), 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 see | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 connection | det |
| 5 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 remember | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 remember | nsubj |
| 8 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 disappears | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Moon | det |
| 11 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 disappears | nsubj |
| 12 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 remember | ccomp |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 month | det |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disappears | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 judge | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 judge | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 judge | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 judge | aux |
| 19 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 means | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 myth | det |
| 22 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 myth | amod |
| 23 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 judge | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 steals | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 27 | Storm | Storm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 King | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Storm | punct |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 steals | nsubj |
| 30 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 means | ccomp |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 steals | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | You | the connection | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer connection=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | disappear | present | the Moon | month | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | judge | should | I | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | mean | present | the following myth | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | steal | present | the Storm King | myth | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme |
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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