The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 41
And if you are not lucky, the dogs will tear you; but if you are lucky, they may have pity on you.
Who acts: you, dogs · What happens: not be, tear, be, have · To what, where: you, pity
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, dogs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tear | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 lucky | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 lucky | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lucky | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lucky | advmod |
| 6 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tear | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lucky | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dogs | det |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tear | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tear | aux |
| 11 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tear | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 lucky | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 lucky | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lucky | cop |
| 18 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 have | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lucky | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tear | conj |
| 23 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | future | the dogs | you | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | may | dogs = dog | pity | on you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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