The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 10
Then each can take away his share when he is ready, and there will be no trouble to measure.”
Who acts: each, Friend · What happens: take away, be, measure, share · To what, where: share, ready trouble
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 Bear[17]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, Friend), 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 take | advmod |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADP | _ | 4 take | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 share | nmod:poss |
| 7 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 ready | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ready | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ready | cop |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trouble | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 be | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 be | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 be | expl |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trouble | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 trouble | det |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 measure | mark |
| 20 | measure | measure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trouble | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | can | each | Friend's share | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | Friend | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | no ready trouble | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | measure | to-infinitive | each not said here | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | share | Friend | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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