The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 25
“I will come again in four days; and if my Cacique will let me, I will bring my family and stay.”
Who acts: good offer, Cacique · What happens: come, let, bring, stay · To what, where: good offer, family
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good offer, Cacique), 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 let | mark |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Cacique | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Cacique | cacique | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bring | aux |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 family | nmod:poss |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stay | cc |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bring | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | future | a good offer = offer | again; day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | my Cacique | a good offer = offer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | future | a good offer = offer | my family | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent family=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | infinitive | a good offer = offer not said here | 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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