The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 72
And when it came to the round dance at night the two boys were dancing side by side.
Who acts: dance, two boys · What happens: come, dance · To what, where: round dance, side
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance, two boys), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dancing | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dancing | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 dance | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dance | det |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dance | amod |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 boys | nummod |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dancing | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dancing | aux |
| 15 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dancing | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dancing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dance | the round dance | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dance | past · progressive | the two boys | side | by side | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location side=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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