The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 69
So you hold up the cliff while I go and hunt water for us both; for soon you too will be thirsty.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: hold up, go, hunt, be · To what, where: cliff, water
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 (you, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hold | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 hold | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cliff | det |
| 6 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hunt | cc |
| 11 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | conj |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunt | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hunt | obl |
| 15 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 hunt | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 thirsty | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 thirsty | mark |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 thirsty | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 thirsty | nsubj |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 thirsty | advmod |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 thirsty | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thirsty | cop |
| 23 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hold | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | present | you | the cliff | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cliff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hunt | present | you not said here | water | for us; both property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Location for we=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | future | you | soon, thirsty property | tree rules |
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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