The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 6
When he sang this and touched the heaviest stone, it rose up from the ground, and went over his head and fell far behind him.
Who acts: heh, ay · What happens: sing, touch, rise up, go, fall · To what, where: this, heaviest stone, ground, 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 (heh, ay), 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 | 12 rose | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sang | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 touched | cc |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sang | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 8 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 stone | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rose | compound:prt |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rose | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 fell | advmod |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | heh | this | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | heh not said here | the heaviest stone | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise up | past | ay | the ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | go | past | ay not said here | heh's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | ay not said here | behind heh; far property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=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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