The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 93
The children that played along the streets looked up to the motionless figure, and ceased their boisterous play.
Who acts: children, streets · What happens: play along, look up, cease, play · To what, where: boisterous play
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 (children, streets), 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 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 played | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 played | nsubj |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 looked | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streets | det |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 looked | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 figure | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 figure | det |
| 12 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 figure | amod |
| 13 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ceased | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ceased | cc |
| 16 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 play | nmod:poss |
| 18 | boisterous | boisterous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 play | amod |
| 19 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ceased | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play along | past | the children | that nsubj | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | the streets | to the motionless figure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to figure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cease | past | the children not said here | streets's boisterous play | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality play=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | play | streets = street | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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