The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 130
“Well, wait then till I cut around the tree three times more,” said the Beaver; and he made her wait.
Who acts: Beaver, Peé · What happens: wait, cut, say, make · To what, where: more, tree, Peé · 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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beaver, Peé), 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 wait | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 wait | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wait | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 cut | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obl |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 more | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 cut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Beaver | det |
| 19 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 made | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut in a quote | present | the Beaver = beaver | more three times | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Beaver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Beaver | Peé | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wait | infinitive | Peé not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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