The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 83
But when the boys looked again at the skeleton they could not stop, but ran away again.
Who acts: boys · What happens: look, not stop, run away · To what, where: 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 (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 | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 looked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ran | parataxis |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 skeleton | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skeleton | det |
| 9 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 stop | advmod |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 skeleton | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the boys | again | at the skeleton | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at skeleton=Theme | |||
| 2 | not stop | could | boys = boy | the skeleton not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality skeleton=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | again | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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