The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 22
“Friend Nah-chu-rú-chu, let us go to-morrow for wood and to have a hunt.”
Who acts: chu rú, us · What happens: let, go, have · To what, where: us, morrow, hunt
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 (chu rú, us), 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 | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chu | compound |
| 3 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 2 Friend | discourse |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 5 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rú | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 chu | punct |
| 7 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 chu | punct |
| 9 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 rú | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rú | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 morrow | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 to | punct |
| 16 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hunt | det |
| 23 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | chu rú | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | morrow | for wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | chu rú not said here | a hunt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=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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