The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 149

“Now,” said he, “the wicked Yellow-Corn-Maidens will come to congratulate you, and will pretend not to know where you were.

Who acts: earth, wicked Yellow Corn Maidens, you · What happens: say, come, congratulate, pretend, not know, be · To what, where: you · 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 Man 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 (earth, wicked Yellow Corn Maidens, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Maidens	det
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Maidens	amod
11	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Maidens	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Yellow	punct
13	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Maidens	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Corn	punct
15	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 congratulate	mark
19	congratulate	congratulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 congratulate	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pretend	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pretend	cc
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 pretend	aux
24	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 know	mark
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 pretend	xcomp
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 were	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 were	nsubj
30	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	earth		now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	future	the wicked Yellow Corn Maidens			tree rules
3	congratulate in a quote	to-infinitive	the wicked Yellow Corn Maidens not said here	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	pretend in a quote	future	earth not said here			tree rules
5	not know in a quote	to-infinitive	earth not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	be in a quote	past	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 149