The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 105
It did take the boys a great while to find her; but at last they shouted:
Who acts: It, boys · What happens: take, find, shout · To what, where: boys, woman, last
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 (It, boys), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 while | amod |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boys | appos |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 while | acl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 shouted | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 shouted | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shouted | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shouted | nsubj |
| 17 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | It | the boys | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | woman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | boys = boy | last | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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