The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 97
Then the elders said: “If that is so, teach us your Power, and we will set you free; but if not, you shall die.”
Who acts: elders, that, we, you · What happens: say, be, teach, set, die · To what, where: Power, us, you · 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 (elders, that, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elders | det |
| 3 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 teach | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 teach | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | mark |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 so | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 so | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 teach | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 so | punct |
| 12 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 teach | obj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Power | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 teach | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | aux |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 teach | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obj |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 set | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 die | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 die | cc |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 not | mark |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 die | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 not | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 die | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 die | aux |
| 30 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 teach | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 teach | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the elders | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other in a quote | infinitive | your Power | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient power=Topic | ||||
| 4 | set in a quote | future | we | you | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result | |||
| 5 | die in a quote | shall | you | 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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