The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 30
Then night came upon the tired earth, and the flowers and birds and people slept their first sleep, and it was very good.
Who acts: night, flowers, earth · What happens: come, sleep, be · To what, where: tired earth, first sleep
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, flowers, earth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 earth | amod |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slept | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flowers | det |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slept | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 birds | cc |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flowers | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 people | cc |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flowers | conj |
| 16 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 sleep | amod |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slept | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 good | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 good | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 good | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 good | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 good | advmod |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | the tired earth | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | the flowers and birds and people | flowers's first sleep | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | earth | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | flowers = flower | nom sleep «state 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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