The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 81
The guards let them in, and they told the Trues all that had happened, and the skeleton stood beside them.
Who acts: guards, boys, Trues, skeleton · What happens: let in, tell, happen, stand · To what, where: boys, Trues · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (guards, boys, Trues, skeleton), 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 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 let | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Trues | det |
| 11 | Trues | True | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 told | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 happened | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | aux |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Trues | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skeleton | det |
| 19 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | conj |
| 21 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in | infinitive | the guards | boys = boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | boys = boy | the Trues | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent true=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | the Trues | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | the skeleton | beside boys = boy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location |
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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