The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 22
But last year you were dissatisfied with your share, so this year we will change.
Who acts: you, year, your · What happens: be, change, share
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, year, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 dissatisfied | cc |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dissatisfied | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 dissatisfied | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dissatisfied | cop |
| 6 | dissatisfied | dissatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 share | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 share | nmod:poss |
| 9 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dissatisfied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 change | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 change | advmod |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 change | nsubj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 change | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 change | aux |
| 16 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dissatisfied | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dissatisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | you | year | with your share; dissatisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | future | this year | we nsubj | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | share | your | 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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