The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 37
Never in your life try to appear what you are not.
Who acts: you · What happens: not try, appear, not be · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 try | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 try | obl |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 appear | mark |
| 7 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | xcomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 appear | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 what | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 what | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try | present | your life | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | appear not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not is a | present | you | tree rules |
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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