The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 92

We must tie some stones to your neck, to make you heavy so you can go down to it.”

Who acts: We, you · What happens: tie, make, go down · To what, where: stones, you, neck

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 (We, you), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tie	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tie	aux
3	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 stones	det
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tie	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 neck	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tie	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tie	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	xcomp
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tie	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tie	must	We	some stones		to your neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient to neck=Co-Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	We not said here	you		heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
3	go down	can	you		neck	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 92

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 92