The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 17
Four days always elapsed between the challenge and the race.
What happens: elapse · To what, where: Four days
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 elapsed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 elapsed | advmod |
| 4 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 challenge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 challenge | det |
| 7 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elapsed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 race | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 race | det |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 challenge | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 elapsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elapse | participle · passive | Four days | between the challenge and the race; always property | tree rules |
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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