The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 77
But the skeleton followed them and stood beside them, and they could not hide from it.
Who acts: skeleton, boys · What happens: follow, stand, not hide · To what, where: boys, skeleton
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 (skeleton, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 followed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 skeleton | det |
| 3 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hide | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hide | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hide | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hide | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 hide | advmod |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hide | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the skeleton | boys = boy | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the skeleton not said here | beside boys = boy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location | ||||
| 3 | not hide | could | boys = boy | skeleton | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from it=Beneficiary |
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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