The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 54
She set them down upon the ground and said: “Now, boys, go and bring me a lot of wood, that I may make a fire in the oven and bake you some sweet cakes.”
Who acts: woman, boys · What happens: set down, say, go, bring, make, bake · To what, where: boys, ground, lot, woman, fire, oven · 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 (woman, boys), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 boys | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boys | punct |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boys | punct |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lot | det |
| 21 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lot | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fire | det |
| 30 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 oven | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 oven | det |
| 33 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bake | cc |
| 35 | bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 bake | obj |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 cakes | det |
| 38 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 cakes | amod |
| 39 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 bake | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set down | past | woman | boys = boy | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | boys | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | boys not said here | a lot of wood | woman | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination lot=Theme | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | may | woman | a fire | the oven | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 6 | bake in a quote | present | woman not said here | some sweet cakes | you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary cake=Product |
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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