The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 10
We are going to get into these bags and pull ourselves up under the branches, where the hail cannot strike us.”
Who acts: We, hail · What happens: go, get, pull up, not strike · To what, where: bags, ourselves, branches, us
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbirds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, hail), 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 going | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 bags | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 bags | det |
| 8 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pull | cc |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | conj |
| 11 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 pull | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 pull | compound:prt |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 branches | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 branches | det |
| 15 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pull | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 strike | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 strike | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hail | det |
| 19 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strike | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 strike | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 strike | advmod |
| 22 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pull | conj |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 strike | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | We | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | We not said here | this bags | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pull up | present | We not said here | ourselves | the branches | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme | |||
| 4 | not strike | can | the hail | us | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent we=Instrument |
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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