The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 77
When you get home, he who did this to you will be first to know, and he will come pretending to be your friend, as if he had done nothing; and he will ask you to go hunting again.
Who acts: you, road · What happens: get, do, be, know, come, pretend · To what, where: this, friend, nothing, you
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, road), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | parataxis |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 did | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 first | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 first | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 first | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 first | cop |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 did | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 first | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 come | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 come | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 friend | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 friend | cop |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friend | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pretending | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 done | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 done | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 done | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 done | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 done | aux |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 come | advcl |
| 33 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 32 done | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 ask | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 ask | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 ask | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 ask | aux |
| 38 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | parataxis |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 ask | iobj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 ask | xcomp |
| 42 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 go | xcomp |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 hunting | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | past | road | this | who nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | future | you | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | come | future | road | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pretend | gerund | road not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | road not said here | your friend | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 8 | do | past · perfect | road | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | ask speech: ask | future | road | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 10 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | road not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 11 | hunt | gerund | road not said here | again | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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