The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 93
“Friend Boy, let me swim while you eat, for I love the water.”
Who acts: you, bóo · What happens: friend, let, swim, eat, love · To what, where: Boy, bóo, water
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 (you, bóo), 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 | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Friend | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Friend | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 swim | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 love | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 love | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 love | nsubj |
| 14 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 love | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | friend in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | bóo and little fish = bóo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swim in a quote | infinitive | bóo and little fish = bóo not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | present | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | love in a quote | present | bóo and little fish = bóo | the water | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
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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