The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 23

“Ah-h-h!” we all responded, which is as much as to say, “We are listening--go on”; and Lorenso begins his story.

Who acts: h h, We, Lorenso · What happens: respond, be, say, listen, go on, begin · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (h h, We, Lorenso), 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	_	6 h	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 h	discourse
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	h	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 h	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 h	punct
6	h	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 responded	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 h	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 h	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 responded	nsubj
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 responded	advmod
11	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 much	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 much	cop
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 responded	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 say	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 much	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 listening	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 listening	punct
22	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 listening	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 listening	aux
24	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 responded	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
26	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 listening	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 go	obl
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 begins	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 begins	cc
31	Lorenso	Lorenso	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 begins	nsubj
32	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 responded	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 story	nmod:poss
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 begins	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past	h h		we nsubj; all property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present			which nsubj; much property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	listen in a quote	present · progressive	We			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	go on in a quote	infinitive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	begin	present	Lorenso	Lorenso's story		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 23