The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 113
By now the crops were dead and sere in the fields, and thirsty animals walked crying along the dry river.
Who acts: crops, thirsty animals · What happens: be, walk, cry · To what, where: fields, dry river
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crops, thirsty animals), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 now | case |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dead | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crops | det |
| 4 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sere | cc |
| 8 | sere | sere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dead | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fields | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fields | det |
| 11 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dead | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walked | cc |
| 14 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animals | amod |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 walked | nsubj |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | parataxis |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 walked | advcl |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 20 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 river | amod |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the crops | the fields | sere conj; dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | past | thirsty animals | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | thirsty animals not said here | the dry river | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along river=Location |
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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