The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 56
“Little daughters, prepare food, for again we will go to look for your brother.”
Who acts: Little daughters, we · What happens: prepare, go, look · To what, where: food
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 (Little daughters, we), 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 | _ | 5 prepare | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughters | amod |
| 3 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prepare | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughters | punct |
| 5 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepare | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prepare | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepare | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare in a quote | infinitive | Little daughters | food | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | we | again | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | for your brother | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for brother=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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