The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 6
A word is generally enough; and for extreme cases it only needs the threat: “Look out, or I will send for the Grandfathers!”
Who acts: word, I · What happens: be, need, look out, send · To what, where: threat · 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 Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enough | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 4 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 5 enough | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 needs | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 needs | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 cases | case |
| 9 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cases | amod |
| 10 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 needs | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 needs | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 needs | advmod |
| 13 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 threat | det |
| 15 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Look | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Look | punct |
| 18 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | parataxis |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 Look | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 send | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 send | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 send | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 send | aux |
| 24 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Look | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 Grandfathers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Grandfathers | det |
| 27 | Grandfathers | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 send | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a word | enough, generally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | word | the threat | for extreme cases | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot threat=Theme | |||
| 3 | look out in a quote | infinitive | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | send in a quote | future | I | for the Grandfathers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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