The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 48
It is best for me to go up on this hill, whence I can see into the village.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, go up, see · To what, where: hill, village
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 best | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 best | cop |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 best | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 best | csubj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 go | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hill | det |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 see | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 village | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 village | det |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for me; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go up | to-infinitive | this hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | see | can | I | the village | whence property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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