The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 106
“We, too, do this to each other!” said Nah-chu-rú-chu.
Who acts: We · What happens: do, say · To what, where: this · 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 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 We | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 do | obl |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 18 rú | discourse |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Nah | punct |
| 16 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rú | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 chu | punct |
| 18 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 chu | punct |
| 20 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 rú | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | We | this | to each | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | chu rú ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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