The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 56
“Now, friend,” said the Squirrel-mother, when he was refreshed by his meal, “you cannot yet get down from here, where the witches put you; but wait, for I am the one that will help you.”
Who acts: friend, meal, you, witches, one · What happens: say, refresh, not get down, put, wait, be · To what, where: Squirrel mother, friend, you · 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 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 (friend, meal, you, witches), 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 friend | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 friend | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mother | det |
| 9 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mother | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Squirrel | punct |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 refreshed | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 refreshed | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 refreshed | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 refreshed | aux:pass |
| 16 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 meal | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 meal | nmod:poss |
| 19 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 refreshed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 get | advmod |
| 25 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 26 get | advmod |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 refreshed | conj |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 get | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 here | case |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 get | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 put | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 put | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 witches | det |
| 33 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 put | nsubj |
| 34 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 here | advcl |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 put | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 wait | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 wait | cc |
| 38 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 one | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 one | case |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 one | nsubj |
| 42 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 one | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 one | det |
| 44 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wait | obl |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 help | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 help | aux |
| 47 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 one | acl:relcl |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 help | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 wait | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | friend | the Squirrel mother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refresh | past · passive | friend's meal | friend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not get down in a quote | can | you | yet | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | put in a quote | past | the witches | you | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal | ||||
| 5 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | friend | for the one | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | help in a quote | future | the one | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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