The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 59
In accordance with the conditions the rivals started together from the goal, the Indian on foot, the Mexican on his burro.
Who acts: rivals · What happens: start · To what, where: accordance
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: who acts (rivals), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 accordance | case |
| 2 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 conditions | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 conditions | det |
| 5 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 accordance | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rivals | det |
| 7 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 started | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 goal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goal | det |
| 12 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Indian | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Indian | det |
| 15 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 goal | amod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Indian | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Mexican | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mexican | det |
| 20 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foot | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 burro | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 burro | nmod:poss |
| 23 | burro | burro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Mexican | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the rivals | accordance with the conditions | from the goal; together property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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