The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 41
“Friend Agostin, I see that you are one of the True Believers, and I will show you where there is water; or wait, I will go and bring you some, for it is very far.”
Who acts: you, little bird, water, thought · What happens: friend, see, be, show, wait, go · To what, where: Agostin, one, you, some · 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 Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little bird, water, thought), 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 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Friend | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Friend | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 one | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 see | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Believers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Believers | det |
| 13 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Believers | amod |
| 14 | Believers | Believer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 show | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 show | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 show | aux |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 show | iobj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 is | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 show | ccomp |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 wait | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 wait | cc |
| 27 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Friend | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 go | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wait | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bring | cc |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 go | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | obj |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 bring | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 far | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 far | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 far | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 far | cop |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 far | advmod |
| 41 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 bring | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | 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 | Agostin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | the little bird = bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | one | of the True Believers | tree rules | |||
| 4 | show in a quote | future | the little bird = bird | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wait in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go in a quote | future | the little bird = bird | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the little bird = bird not said here | some | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination some=Theme | |||
| 9 | is in a quote | present | thought | far property | tree rules |
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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