The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 11
It is not well not to know that; for from that comes all that we know to cure the sick.
Who acts: world, we · What happens: not be, come, know, cure · To what, where: all, that, sick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 not | fixed |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 comes | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 comes | obl |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 comes | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 know | obl |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 all | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 cure | mark |
| 19 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sick | det |
| 21 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cure | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | world | that obj; know property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | world not said here | all | that | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | cure | to-infinitive | the sick | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer sick=Source |
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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