The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 8
Come to our house to supper this evening, and bring your family.”
Who acts: you · What happens: come, supper, bring · To what, where: house, family
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 supper | mark |
| 6 | supper | supper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 supper | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 family | nmod:poss |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | our house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | supper | to-infinitive | you not said here | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | your family | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent family=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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