The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 52
For now it is clear that big tails are not good to run with, since I have been waiting here a long time for you.
Who acts: big tails, I · What happens: be, not be, run, wait
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big tails, I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 now | case |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 clear | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 clear | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clear | cop |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 good | mark |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tails | amod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 good | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clear | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 run | mark |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 good | csubj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 run | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 waiting | punct |
| 16 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 20 waiting | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 waiting | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 waiting | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 waiting | aux |
| 20 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 run | advcl |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 waiting | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waiting | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 waiting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | big tails | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | wait | present · perfect · progressive | I | here | time | for 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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