The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 122
I may add that the game of hide-and-seek is still played by my dusky little neighbors, the Pueblo children, and the searching-song is still sung by them, exactly as the boys and the old witch played and sang--but of course without their magical talent at hiding.
Who acts: I, dusky little neighbors, children, old witch, magical talent · What happens: add, play, sing, hide · To what, where: game, searching song
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 (I, dusky little neighbors, children, old witch), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 add | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | aux |
| 3 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 played | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 played | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 seek | case |
| 8 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seek | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 seek | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seek | cc |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | seek | seek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 game | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 played | aux:pass |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 played | advmod |
| 15 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 add | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 neighbors | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 neighbors | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 neighbors | amod |
| 20 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 played | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 children | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 children | det |
| 23 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 children | compound |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 neighbors | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sung | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sung | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 song | det |
| 28 | searching | searching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 song | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 searching | punct |
| 30 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 sung | aux:pass |
| 32 | still | still | ADV | _ | 33 sung | advmod |
| 33 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 add | parataxis |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sung | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 boys | punct |
| 37 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 40 boys | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 boys | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 boys | det |
| 40 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 sung | vocative |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 played | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 witch | det |
| 43 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 witch | amod |
| 44 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 played | nsubj |
| 45 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 boys | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 sang | cc |
| 47 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 played | conj |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 55 talent | punct |
| 49 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 55 talent | cc |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 talent | case |
| 51 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 of | fixed |
| 52 | without | without | ADP | _ | 55 talent | case |
| 53 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 talent | nmod:poss |
| 54 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 talent | amod |
| 55 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 add | parataxis |
| 56 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 57 hiding | mark |
| 57 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 55 talent | acl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | may | I | children's magical talent parataxis | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | present · passive | my dusky little neighbors and the Pueblo children | the game of hide seek | still | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present · passive | children = child | the searching song | still | the boys vocative | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||
| 4 | play | past | the old witch | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past | the old witch not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hide | gerund | children's magical talent not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «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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