The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 4
There were many very large rocks, and to move them he sang a strong song as he pulled:
Who acts: many large rocks, deh · What happens: be, move, sing, pull · To what, where: rocks, strong song
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 (many large rocks, deh), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rocks | amod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rocks | amod |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sang | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sang | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 move | mark |
| 10 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sang | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 move | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 song | det |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 song | amod |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sang | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 pulled | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pulled | nsubj |
| 19 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sang | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many large rocks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | deh not said here | rocks = rock | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | deh | a strong song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pull | past | deh | vn slide-11.2 «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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