The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 43
Agostin waited, and presently the little bird came back, bringing an acorn-cup full of water.
Who acts: Agostin, little bird · What happens: wait, come back, bring · To what, where: acorn cup
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 (Agostin, little bird), 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 | Agostin | Agostin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 5 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 8 bird | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bringing | punct |
| 12 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 14 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cup | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 acorn | punct |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bringing | obj |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cup | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Agostin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come back | past | the little bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | the little bird not said here | a acorn cup | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cup=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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