The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 29
Come, let us stop here and amuse ourselves with a game.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: come, let, stop, amuse · To what, where: us, ourselves
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, 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stop | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 amuse | cc |
| 8 | amuse | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | conj |
| 9 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 amuse | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 game | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 game | det |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 amuse | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | infinitive | us not said here | here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | amuse | present | us not said here | ourselves | with a game | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer |
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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