The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 48
“Truly I know not, for he went northwest and I southwest; and though I waited long at the meeting-place, he did not come.
Who acts: sisters, friend · What happens: not know, go, southwest, wait, not come · To what, where: meeting place
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, friend), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 know | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 went | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 10 | northwest | northwest | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 southwest | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 southwest | nsubj |
| 13 | southwest | southwest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 come | cc |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 waited | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 waited | nsubj |
| 18 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | advcl |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 waited | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 22 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 meeting | punct |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 waited | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 waited | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 come | advmod |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present | the sisters = sister | truly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | friend | northwest property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | southwest in a quote | present | the sisters = sister | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | past | the sisters = sister | the meeting place | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location | |||
| 5 | not come in a quote | past · do-support | friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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