The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 13
Just run home and get a bag and a lasso, and come back here and we will help you,” said the Pah-táhn, never smiling.
Who acts: we · What happens: run, get, come back, help, say, not smile · To what, where: bag, you, Pah táhn · 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, 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), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 run | advmod |
| 2 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 run | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 run | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lasso | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lasso | det |
| 10 | lasso | lasso | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bag | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 run | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 come | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 help | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 run | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 táhn | det |
| 25 | Pah | pah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 táhn | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Pah | punct |
| 27 | táhn | táhn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 smiling | punct |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 smiling | advmod |
| 30 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 said | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | infinitive | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | a bag and a lasso | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bag=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come back | infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | future | we | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Pah táhn | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not smile in a quote | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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