The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 57
But the Trues were friends of the Hero Twins, and did not let the heat harm them at all.
Who acts: Trues, heat · What happens: be, not let, harm · To what, where: friends, heat, Trues, all
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 (Trues, heat), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 friends | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Trues | det |
| 3 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 friends | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | cop |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Twins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Twins | det |
| 8 | Hero | Hero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Twins | compound |
| 9 | Twins | Twin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 friends | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 let | advmod |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heat | det |
| 16 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 17 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 harm | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 harm | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Trues | friends | of the Hero Twins | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not let | past · do-support | the heat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | harm | infinitive | the heat not said here | Trues = true | all | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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