The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 22
The captive told her all, and the fairy said: “Do not fear, daughter, for I will help you, and we will have all the corn shelled and ground in four days.”
Who acts: captive, fairy, we, corn · What happens: tell, say, not fear, help, have, shell · To what, where: fairy, you · 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 (captive, fairy, we, corn), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captive | det |
| 2 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 her | det |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 fear | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fear | punct |
| 13 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 fear | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fear | advmod |
| 15 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 daughter | punct |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fear | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 help | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 help | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 help | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | aux |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fear | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fear | conj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 corn | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 corn | det |
| 31 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shelled | nsubj |
| 32 | shelled | shell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | ccomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ground | cc |
| 34 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shelled | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 days | case |
| 36 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 days | nummod |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 shelled | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fear | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the captive | fairy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not fear in a quote | infinitive · do-support | daughter conj | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | help in a quote | future | the fairy = fairy | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | future | we | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | shell in a quote | past | all corn | day | ground conj | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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