The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 9
Now, perhaps you do not know who the Grandfathers are; but every Pueblo youngster does.
Who acts: you, Grandfathers, Pueblo youngster · What happens: not know, be, do · 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 (you, Grandfathers, Pueblo youngster), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 know | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Grandfathers | det |
| 10 | Grandfathers | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 who | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 who | cop |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 does | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 does | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 youngster | det |
| 15 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 youngster | compound |
| 16 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 does | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | you | now | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Grandfathers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | present | every Pueblo youngster | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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