The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 33
“Friend Field-Mouse, can you not cure me of this pain?
Who acts: Field Mouse · What happens: not cure · To what, where: feet
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 (Field Mouse), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mouse | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Field | compound |
| 3 | Field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Mouse | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Field | punct |
| 5 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cure | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mouse | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cure | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 cure | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 cure | advmod |
| 10 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 cure | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pain | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 pain | det |
| 14 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cure | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cure in a quote | can | Field Mouse | feet = foot | of this pain; you nsubj | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source of pain=Theme |
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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