The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 62

Just as the Mexican was passing, out came an Indian, passed the burro with a magnificent spurt, and after a long run reached the farther goal about a hundred feet ahead.

Who acts: Mexican · What happens: pass, come, reach · To what, where: Indian, burro, farther goal

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 (Mexican), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 passing	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 passing	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mexican	det
4	Mexican	Mexican	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 passing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passing	aux
6	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	out	out	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Indian	det
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 burro	det
15	burro	burro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 spurt	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 spurt	det
18	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spurt	amod
19	spurt	spurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reached	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reached	cc
22	after	after	ADP	_	25 run	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 run	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 run	amod
25	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	obl
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 goal	det
28	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 goal	amod
29	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	obj
30	about	about	ADV	_	33 feet	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 feet	det
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 feet	nummod
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reached	obl:unmarked
34	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	33 feet	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	the Mexican				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past		a Indian		out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location indian=Theme
3	pass	past		the burro		with a magnificent spurt	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme burro=Trajectory
4	reach	past		the farther goal	after a long run	a hundred feet obl:unmarked	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent goal=Theme

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 62

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 62