The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 6
What do you say if we farm it together, sharing our labor and the crop?”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: say, farm, share · To what, where: land, labor · 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 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, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 farm | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 farm | nsubj |
| 7 | farm | farm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 farm | obj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 farm | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sharing | punct |
| 11 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 farm | advcl |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 labor | nmod:poss |
| 13 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sharing | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crop | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crop | det |
| 16 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 labor | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | What obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | farm a condition, not said to happen | present | we | land | together property | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | share | gerund | we not said here | our labor and the crop | tree rules |
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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