The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 102
_” And then the boys came down from under the Sun’s arm rejoicing.
Who acts: boys, Sun · What happens: come down, rejoice · To what, where: arm rejoicing
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Sun), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boys | det |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 rejoicing | case |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 rejoicing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rejoicing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Sun | case |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rejoicing | compound |
| 15 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down in a quote | past | the boys | the Sun's arm rejoicing | then | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rejoicing=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | rejoice in a quote | the Sun | nom rejoicing «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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