The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 84
Many moons they ran north till they came to where the Trues of the North dwell in the Black Lake of Tears.
Who acts: Many moons, moons · What happens: run, come
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 (Many moons, moons), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moons | amod |
| 2 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | north | north | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 where | case |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 came | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Trues | det |
| 12 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 where | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dwell | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dwell | det |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dwell | compound |
| 16 | dwell | dwell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Trues | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Lake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lake | det |
| 19 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lake | compound |
| 20 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dwell | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Tears | case |
| 22 | Tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Lake | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Many moons | moons = moon nsubj; north property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | moons = moon | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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