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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

detnsubjcompound:prtcaseoblcaseamodcompoundnmodmarkadvcldetobjpunctccadvmoddetnsubj:passauxconjcompound:prtpunctnsubjparataxisadvmodcasedetcompoundpunctoblccconjmarkxcompdetcompoundpunctobjcasedetamodpunctconjpunctccamodamodoblpunctrootTheDETgirlsNOUNranVERBoutADPfromADPhundredsNOUNofADPgrayADJadobeNOUNhousesNOUNtoPARTcatchVERBeveryDETwordNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheDETcrierNOUNhadAUXpassedVERBonADP,PUNCTtheyPRONranVERBbackADVintoADPtheDETstoreNOUN-PUNCTroomsNOUNandCCONJbeganVERBtoPARTransackVERBtheDETcornNOUN-PUNCTbinsNOUNforADPtheDETbiggestADJ,PUNCTevenestADJ,PUNCTandCCONJmostADJperfectADJearsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 girlsdet
2girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur3 rannsubj
3ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4outoutADP_3 rancompound:prt
5fromfromADP_6 hundredscase
6hundredshundredNOUNNumber=Plur3 ranobl
7ofofADP_10 housescase
8graygrayADJDegree=Pos10 housesamod
9adobeadobeNOUNNumber=Sing10 housescompound
10houseshouseNOUNNumber=Plur6 hundredsnmod
11totoPART_12 catchmark
12catchcatchVERBVerbForm=Inf3 ranadvcl
13everyeveryDETPronType=Tot14 worddet
14wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing12 catchobj
15;;PUNCT_21 passedpunct
16andandCCONJ_21 passedcc
17whenwhenADVPronType=Int21 passedadvmod
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 crierdet
19criercrierNOUNNumber=Sing21 passednsubj:pass
20hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 passedaux
21passedpassVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 ranconj
22ononADP_21 passedcompound:prt
23,,PUNCT_25 ranpunct
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 rannsubj
25ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 ranparataxis
26backbackADV_25 ranadvmod
27intointoADP_31 roomscase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 roomsdet
29storestoreNOUNNumber=Sing31 roomscompound
30--PUNCT_29 storepunct
31roomsroomNOUNNumber=Plur25 ranobl
32andandCCONJ_33 begancc
33beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 ranconj
34totoPART_35 ransackmark
35ransackransackVERBVerbForm=Inf33 beganxcomp
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 binsdet
37corncornNOUNNumber=Sing39 binscompound
38--PUNCT_37 cornpunct
39binsbinNOUNNumber=Plur35 ransackobj
40forforADP_42 biggestcase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 biggestdet
42biggestbigADJDegree=Sup39 binsamod
43,,PUNCT_44 evenestpunct
44evenestevenADJDegree=Sup42 biggestconj
45,,PUNCT_49 earspunct
46andandCCONJ_49 earscc
47mostmostADJDegree=Sup49 earsamod
48perfectperfectADJDegree=Pos49 earsamod
49earsearNOUNNumber=Plur3 ranobl
50..PUNCT_3 ranpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1run outpastthe girlsmost perfect earshundreds of gray adobe housesvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hundred=Trajectory
2catchto-infinitivethe girls not said hereevery wordvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3pass onpast · perfect · passivethe criervn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4run backpastgirls = girlinto the store rooms resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
5beginpastgirls = girl not said herevn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6ransackto-infinitivegirls = girl not said herethe corn binsvn 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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