The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 16
“Wait and I will bring them.”
Who acts: you, Mother Crow · What happens: wait, bring · To what, where: crows
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mother Crow), 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 | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bring | cc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Wait | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | future | the Mother Crow = crow | crows = crow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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