The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 44
“If you will take us through this big forest, which we would like to see, we will go with you.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: take, like, see, go · To what, where: us, big forest
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, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 forest | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forest | amod |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 like | obj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forest | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 like | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | you | us | this big forest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination | |||
| 2 | like in a quote | would | we | this big forest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | we | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
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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