The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 21
You will know his house, for the ladder to it has three uprights instead of two.
Who acts: You · What happens: know, have · To what, where: house, three uprights
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), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ladder | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladder | det |
| 9 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ladder | nmod |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 uprights | nummod |
| 14 | uprights | upright | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 two | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 has | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | future | You | Dying's house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | You not said here | three uprights | for the ladder to ladder; instead two | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upright=Patient |
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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