The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 20
Go ye in at the west end of the town and stand at the south end of the council-grounds until some one speaks to you; and ask them to take you to the Cacique, for he is your grandfather.
Who acts: you, one, Dying · What happens: go, stand, speak, ask, take, be · To what, where: ye, west end, south end, you, Máw, Cacique · 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 Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, Dying), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Go | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 6 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 end | amod |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stand | cc |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 15 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 end | amod |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stand | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 grounds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grounds | det |
| 19 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grounds | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 council | punct |
| 21 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 end | nmod |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 speaks | mark |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 speaks | nsubj |
| 25 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stand | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 speaks | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 ask | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ask | cc |
| 30 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ask | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 take | mark |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ask | xcomp |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Cacique | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Cacique | det |
| 37 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 grandfather | punct |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 grandfather | case |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 grandfather | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 grandfather | cop |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 43 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | ye | in the west end of the town | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ye=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | present | you not said here | at the south end of the council grounds | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | some one | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | Máw | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | the Cacique | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to cacique=Destination | |||
| 6 | is | present | Dying | for your grandfather; your nmod:poss | 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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