The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 41
It was full of rabbits, and they were having great sport, when suddenly they heard a motherly voice calling through the woods.
Who acts: bosque, rabbits, motherly voice · What happens: be, have, hear, call · To what, where: great sport, motherly voice, woods · 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 (bosque, rabbits, motherly voice), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rabbits | case |
| 5 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 having | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 having | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 having | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 having | aux |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 full | parataxis |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sport | amod |
| 12 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 having | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 heard | advmod |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 heard | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 having | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 19 | motherly | motherly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 21 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 voice | acl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 woods | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 woods | det |
| 24 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 calling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bosque | of rabbits; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past · progressive | rabbits = rabbit | great sport | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | rabbits = rabbit | a motherly voice | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | call | gerund | a motherly voice not said here | the woods | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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