The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 15
For it is very long ago; and if one made a mistake in telling, and said that which was not all true, _Ch’áh-rah-ráh-deh_ would bite him, and he would die.
Who acts: world, one, mistake, Ch’áh rah ráh, ráh · What happens: be, make, tell, say, not be, bite · To what, where: mistake, deh · 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, one, mistake, Ch’áh rah ráh), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 ago | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ago | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ago | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 ago | advmod |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 36 bite | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ago | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mistake | det |
| 13 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 telling | mark |
| 15 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 mistake | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 true | mark |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 true | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 true | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 true | advmod |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 true | advmod |
| 24 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ago | punct |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 ráh | punct |
| 27 | Ch’áh | Ch'áh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 ráh | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Ch’áh | punct |
| 29 | rah | rah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ráh | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 rah | punct |
| 31 | ráh | ráh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bite | nsubj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 deh | punct |
| 33 | deh | deh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 ráh | appos |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 ráh | punct |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 bite | aux |
| 36 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bite | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 die | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 die | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 die | nsubj |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 die | aux |
| 42 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 bite | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | world | ago, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen | past | one | a mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a mistake not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | one not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is | past | which nsubj; all, true property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bite | would | Ch’áh rah ráh | deh | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 7 | die | would | ráh | 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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