The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 68
“Now, son,” said the old man, “you must wear only your moccasins and breech-clout, and go like a man to the two willows you marked yesterday.
Who acts: son, you · What happens: say, wear, go, mark · To what, where: old man, moccasins, two willows · 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 (son, you), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wear | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wear | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wear | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wear | aux |
| 15 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 moccasins | advmod |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 18 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wear | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 clout | cc |
| 20 | breech | breech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clout | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 breech | punct |
| 22 | clout | clout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moccasins | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wear | conj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 man | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 willows | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 willows | det |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 willows | nummod |
| 32 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 go | obl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 marked | nsubj |
| 34 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 willows | acl:relcl |
| 35 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 marked | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | son | the old man | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear in a quote | must | you | your moccasins and breech clout | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent moccasin=Source | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the two willows | like a man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to willow=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | mark in a quote | past | you | the two willows not said here | yesterday | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent willow=Destination |
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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