The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 94
This time the boys made themselves small and crawled into the quivers beside their bows and arrows.
Who acts: boys · What happens: make, crawl · To what, where: boys, quivers
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crawled | cc |
| 9 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 small | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 quivers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 quivers | det |
| 12 | quivers | quiver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crawled | obl |
| 13 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 15 bows | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bows | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 quivers | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrows | cc |
| 17 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bows | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the boys | boys = boy | time | small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product | ||
| 2 | crawl | participle | the boys not said here | the quivers beside boys's bows and arrows | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into quiver=Destination |
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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