The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 41
At last came the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, who had waited to watch the failure of the others.
Who acts: Yellow Corn Maidens, others · What happens: come, wait, watch, fail · To what, where: Yellow Corn Maidens, last, failure
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 (Yellow Corn Maidens, others), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | obl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Maidens | det |
| 5 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Maidens | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yellow | punct |
| 7 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Maidens | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Corn | punct |
| 9 | Maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waited | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 waited | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 waited | aux |
| 13 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Maidens | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 watch | mark |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 waited | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 failure | det |
| 17 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watch | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 others | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 others | det |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 failure | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Yellow Corn Maidens | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | past · perfect | the Yellow Corn Maidens | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | the Yellow Corn Maidens not said here | the failure of the others | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fail | the others | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=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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