The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 42

At last it was to the Field-Mouse, who is the smallest of all animals, and who did not wish to seem wise until all the greater ones had spoken.

Who acts: kind · What happens: be, not wish, seem, speak · To what, where: last, greater ones · 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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 smallest	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smallest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 smallest	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 Mouse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mouse	det
7	Field	Field	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mouse	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Field	punct
9	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 smallest	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smallest	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 smallest	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 smallest	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 smallest	det
14	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 animals	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 animals	det
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 smallest	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wish	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wish	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 wish	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wish	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 wish	advmod
23	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 smallest	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 seem	mark
25	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wish	xcomp
26	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seem	xcomp
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 spoken	mark
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 ones	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ones	det
30	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 ones	amod
31	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 spoken	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 spoken	aux
33	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 wise	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 smallest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	kind		last	to the Field Mouse; of all animals; who nsubj; small property	tree rules
2	not wish	past · do-support				who nsubj	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	seem not said to happen	to-infinitive				wise property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		all greater ones			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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 42