The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 52
The boys, knowing that she could easily break down the tree if they refused, came down.
Who acts: boys, woman · What happens: know, break down, refuse, come down · To what, where: tree · 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 (boys, woman), 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 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knowing | punct |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 boys | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 break | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 break | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 break | aux |
| 8 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 9 break | advmod |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knowing | ccomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 break | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | obj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 refused | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 refused | nsubj |
| 15 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 break | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boys | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | the boys not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | break down | could | woman | the tree | easily property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||
| 3 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | past | boys = boy | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come down | past | the boys | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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