The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 61

Only sit down here a little while, and I will give you something to carry.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: sit down, give, carry · To what, where: something, you

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 sit	advmod
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sit	compound:prt
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sit	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 while	amod
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sit	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 give	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sit	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 give	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 carry	mark
16	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 something	acl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here			here	while	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	future	I	something	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme
3	carry	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 61