Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 15

Come, Cloud Catcher, come, for the stars are going to hide,” and the boy felt himself rising and moving through the air like a bird.

Who acts: you, stars, boy · What happens: come, cloud, go, hide, feel, rise · To what, where: Catcher, boy, air

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stars, boy), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Cloud	punct
3	Cloud	cloud	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	Catcher	catcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Cloud	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stars	det
10	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 going	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 come	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hide	mark
14	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 felt	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 felt	obj
22	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 felt	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 moving	cc
24	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 rising	conj
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 moving	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 bird	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bird	det
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 moving	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cloud	infinitive	you not said here	Catcher			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent catcher=Patient
3	come	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	present · progressive	the stars				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hide	to-infinitive	the stars not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	feel in a quote	past	the boy	boy			tree rules
7	rise in a quote	gerund	boy not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	move in a quote	gerund	boy not said here		the air	like a bird	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory

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: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 15

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 15