The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 61
“Wait till it is well cooked,” said the mother; and hushed the child till the sun was well up.
Who acts: mother, sun · What happens: wait, cook, say, hush, be · To what, where: back, child · 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 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 (mother, sun), 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 | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 cooked | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooked | aux:pass |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 cooked | advmod |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mother | det |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hushed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hushed | cc |
| 15 | hushed | hush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hushed | obj |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 up | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 up | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 up | cop |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 up | advmod |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 hushed | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cook in a quote | present · passive | back | well property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hush | past | the mother not said here | the child | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the sun | up, well property | 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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