The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 26
Both boys loved the outdoors, and games, and hunting; and the parents were well pleased, saying to each other:
Who acts: boys, parents · What happens: love, be, say · To what, where: outdoors, each · 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 (boys, parents), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 outdoors | det |
| 5 | outdoors | outdoor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 games | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 games | cc |
| 8 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hunting | cc |
| 11 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pleased | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pleased | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 parents | det |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pleased | cop |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 pleased | advmod |
| 18 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saying | punct |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 pleased | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 each | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 20 saying | obl |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 each | fixed |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | both boys | the outdoors | games obl; hunting conj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer outdoor=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | the parents | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the parents not said here | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
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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