The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 17
When he sang, the rock rose up in the air to go over his head; but he, being scared, ducked his head.
Who acts: deh, rock · What happens: sing, rise up, go, be, duck · To what, where: air, head
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Stone-moving Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deh, rock), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 sang | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 rose | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rose | advcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 scared | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 scared | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 scared | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scared | punct |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 scared | cop |
| 22 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rose | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ducked | punct |
| 24 | ducked | duck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 scared | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ducked | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | deh | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | rise up | past | the rock | the air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the rock not said here | deh's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | deh | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | duck | past | deh not said here | deh's head | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent head=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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