The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 18
“Why do you not come to the meeting, for we await you?”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: not come, await · To what, where: meeting, you
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 come | advmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 meeting | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meeting | det |
| 9 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 await | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 await | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 await | nsubj |
| 13 | await | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 await | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come in a quote | present · do-support | you | the meeting | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meeting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | await in a quote | present | we | you | 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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