The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 16
You have those round things, which are good to eat, but what I took home we cannot eat at all, neither my wife nor I.”
Who acts: You, round things, I, we · What happens: have, be, eat, take, not eat · To what, where: round things, all
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 (You, round things, I, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 things | det |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 good | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 good | cop |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 good | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 what | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 have | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 eat | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 eat | advmod |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 took | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 eat | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wife | punct |
| 25 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 wife | cc:preconj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 I. | cc |
| 29 | I. | i. | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 wife | conj |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | that round things | what conj; my wife I. parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | that round things | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | that round things not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | I | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not eat | can | we | all | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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