The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 59
“If that is so, come here and be not afraid of us; for we will be the ones to help you out of this trouble.”
Who acts: that, you, we · What happens: be, come, not be, help · To what, where: ones, you, trouble
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 (that, you, 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 | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 afraid | cc |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 afraid | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 afraid | advmod |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 help | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 ones | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ones | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ones | det |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 we | appos |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 trouble | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trouble | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 trouble | det |
| 28 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 help | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | of us; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | the ones | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | we | you | this trouble | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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