The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 74
I am so thirsty that I will go to the lake, even if I die!”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, go, die · To what, where: lake
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thirsty | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thirsty | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 thirsty | advmod |
| 4 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thirsty | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 die | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 die | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 die | nsubj |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | future | I | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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