The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 69
To one of them you must pray; and then cut the other and bring it to me.”
Who acts: one · What happens: pray, cut, bring · To what, where: other, willow, me
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 (one), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pray | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pray | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pray | aux |
| 7 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 cut | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 cut | advmod |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pray | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cut | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bring | cc |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cut | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pray | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | must | one of moccasins | you nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | one of moccasins not said here | the other | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset other=Product | |||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | one of moccasins not said here | willow | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=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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