The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 10
He went all around to see if they had come out; but there were no other tracks, so he went in.
Who acts: crowd, tracks, other tracks · What happens: go, see, come out, be, go in
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Feathered Barbers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, tracks, other tracks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 around | advmod |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 see | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 were | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 were | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 were | expl |
| 15 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 tracks | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tracks | amod |
| 18 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 were | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | crowd | around property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | crowd not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come out a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | tracks = track | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no other tracks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in | past | crowd | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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