The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 44
“If that is so, I will not eat you, but we will go to the dance.”
Who acts: that, Blue Fox, we · What happens: be, not eat, go · To what, where: you, dance
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 (that, Blue Fox, we), 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 | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 so | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 so | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 eat | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 so | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 eat | advmod |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 eat | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 dance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dance | det |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not eat in a quote | future | the Blue Fox = fox | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | we | the dance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_Location |
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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