The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 64
“Isn’t this nice?” said the baby; and Máw-Sahv could not help saying, “You nasty things, to like that!”
Who acts: this, baby, Máw, You · What happens: not be, say, not help, thing · 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 (this, baby, Máw, You), 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 nice | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nice | cop |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 nice | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 nice | nsubj |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 nice | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 nice | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 baby | det |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Máw | cc |
| 13 | Máw | Máw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 help | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Máw | punct |
| 15 | Sahv | Sahv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Máw | flat |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 help | advmod |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 help | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 things | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 things | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 things | nsubj |
| 23 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saying | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 that | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 that | mark |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 help | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | this | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the baby | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not help | could | Máw | like that | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express not said to happen | gerund | Máw not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | thing in a quote | You | tree rules |
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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