The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 25
When this strange news came rolling down the still evening air, there was a great scampering of little moccasined feet.
Who acts: strange news, great scampering · What happens: come, roll down, be · To what, where: evening air
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 (strange news, great scampering), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 news | det |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 news | amod |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 was | advcl |
| 6 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 air | advmod |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 air | compound |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rolling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 scampering | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scampering | amod |
| 17 | scampering | scampering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feet | amod |
| 20 | moccasined | moccasined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feet | amod |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scampering | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this strange news | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | roll down | gerund | this strange news not said here | the evening air | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a great scampering of little moccasined feet | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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