The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 26
The best way is for me to go to the house and see what the servants are doing.”
Who acts: best way, servants · What happens: be, see, 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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best way, servants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | cop |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 doing | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 servants | det |
| 16 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 doing | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 doing | aux |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 see | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the best way | to the house; me nsubj; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | the best way not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | present · progressive | the servants | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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