The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 31
So he ran all around, hunting for a black thunder-knife,[49] and singing:
Who acts: clay · What happens: run, hunt, sing
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clay), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 around | advmod |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunting | punct |
| 7 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 knife | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knife | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knife | amod |
| 11 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knife | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 thunder | punct |
| 13 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 49 | punct |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 49 | punct |
| 16 | 49 | 49 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 knife | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 49 | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 singing | cc |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hunting | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | clay | around property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | clay not said here | for a black thunder knife | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for knife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | clay not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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