The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 26
The girls ran out from hundreds of gray adobe houses to catch every word; and when the crier had passed on, they ran back into the store-rooms and began to ransack the corn-bins for the biggest, evenest, and most perfect ears.
Who acts: girls · What happens: run out, catch, pass on, run back, begin, ransack · To what, where: most perfect ears, hundreds, word, crier, store rooms, corn bins
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 (girls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 hundreds | case |
| 6 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 houses | case |
| 8 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 houses | amod |
| 9 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 houses | compound |
| 10 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 catch | mark |
| 12 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ran | advcl |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catch | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 passed | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crier | det |
| 19 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 passed | aux |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 passed | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 ran | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 rooms | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rooms | det |
| 29 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rooms | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 store | punct |
| 31 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ran | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 began | cc |
| 33 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ran | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 ransack | mark |
| 35 | ransack | ransack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 began | xcomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bins | det |
| 37 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bins | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 corn | punct |
| 39 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ransack | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 biggest | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 biggest | det |
| 42 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 bins | amod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 evenest | punct |
| 44 | evenest | even | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 biggest | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 ears | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 ears | cc |
| 47 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 49 ears | amod |
| 48 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 ears | amod |
| 49 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | the girls | most perfect ears | hundreds of gray adobe houses | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hundred=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | the girls not said here | every word | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass on | past · perfect · passive | the crier | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run back | past | girls = girl | into the store rooms result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | girls = girl not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | ransack | to-infinitive | girls = girl not said here | the corn bins | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bin=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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