The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 102
“If you do not care enough for it to be spryer than that, you cannot have it.”
Who acts: you, rú · What happens: not care, be, not have · To what, where: enough, rú
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rú), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 care | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 care | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 care | advmod |
| 6 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 care | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 spryer | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spryer | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 spryer | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spryer | cop |
| 12 | spryer | spryer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enough | obl |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 spryer | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 care | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care in a quote | present · do-support | you | enough | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | rú | for spryer; than that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have in a quote | can | you | rú | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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