The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 91
_” the boys went searching and singing; and at last the elder cried out:
Who acts: boys · What happens: go, search, sing, cry out
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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | searching | search | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 went | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 singing | cc |
| 8 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 searching | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cried | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 elder | det |
| 14 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 last | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cried | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | the boys | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | search in a quote | gerund | the boys not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | gerund | the boys not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express in a quote | past | the boys not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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