The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 91
But they could not answer her, and ran into the room of the Trues of the Center, and told their story.
Who acts: guards · What happens: not answer, run, tell · To what, where: Navajos, room, story · 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), 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 | _ | 5 answer | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 answer | advmod |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answer | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Trues | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Trues | det |
| 15 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 room | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Center | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Center | det |
| 18 | Center | Center | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Trues | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 story | nmod:poss |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | could | guards = guard | Navajos | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run | past | into the room of the Trues of the Center result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | guards's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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