The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 76
They were very frightened, but kept dancing until they were too tired, and then went to the singers inside the circle to escape.
Who acts: boys · What happens: be, keep, dance, go, escape · To what, where: boys, circle
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 kept | cc |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 8 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 tired | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 tired | advmod |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dancing | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 went | advmod |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 singers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 singers | det |
| 20 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 23 circle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 circle | det |
| 23 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 escape | mark |
| 25 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | boys = boy | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | boys = boy | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the circle | then | to the singers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to singer=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | escape | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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