The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 22
When you go in and tell your story, he will ask you a question to see if you are really his grandchildren, and will give you four chances to answer what he has in a bag in the corner.
Who acts: you, Dying · What happens: go in, tell, ask, see, be, give · To what, where: story, question, you, grandchildren, four chances, bag · 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, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tell | cc |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 question | det |
| 15 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | advcl |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 grandchildren | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 grandchildren | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 grandchildren | cop |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 grandchildren | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 grandchildren | nmod:poss |
| 23 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 give | cc |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 give | aux |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | conj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 give | iobj |
| 29 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 chances | nummod |
| 30 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 give | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 answer | mark |
| 32 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 give | advcl |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 has | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 has | nsubj |
| 35 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 answer | ccomp |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 bag | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bag | det |
| 38 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 has | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 corner | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 corner | det |
| 41 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bag | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | your story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | future | Dying | a question | you | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Dying not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | you | Dying's grandchildren | Dying nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | give | future | Dying not said here | four chances | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient chance=Theme | |||
| 7 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | Dying not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | have | present | Dying | a bag in the corner | what obj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/22/