The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 113
When all saw the boys and heard their story, there was great rejoicing, for those two witch-people had been terrors to the village for years.
Who acts: those · What happens: see, hear, be · To what, where: boys, story
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 (those), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 was | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 story | nmod:poss |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 terrors | cop |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rejoicing | amod |
| 14 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 terrors | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 terrors | case |
| 17 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 terrors | nsubj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 people | nummod |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 people | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 witch | punct |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 those | nmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 terrors | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 terrors | cop |
| 24 | terrors | terror | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 village | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 village | det |
| 27 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 terrors | nmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 village | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 terrors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | those two witch people not said here | the boys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | those two witch people not said here | boys's story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | those two witch people | for terrors; to the village for years | tree rules |
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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