The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 40
The younger boy being persuaded, they started off together, and after a long walk came to the _bosque_.
Who acts: boys · What happens: persuade, start off, come · To what, where: younger boy, bosque
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 persuaded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 5 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 persuaded | parataxis |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 started | compound:prt |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 started | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 walk | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 walk | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 walk | amod |
| 16 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 started | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 bosque | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bosque | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 bosque | punct |
| 21 | bosque | bosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | gerund · passive | the younger boy | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | start off | past | boys = boy | together property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come | past | boys = boy not said here | the bosque | after a long walk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bosque=Initial_Location |
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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