The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 2
While he was sleeping there, a crowd of Quails came along; and seeing that he was asleep, they said:
Who acts: he, crowd, coyote · What happens: sleep, come along, see, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (he, crowd, coyote), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 sleeping | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sleeping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeping | aux |
| 4 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sleeping | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleeping | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crowd | det |
| 8 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Quails | case |
| 10 | Quails | Quails | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 crowd | nmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 said | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 asleep | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asleep | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 asleep | cop |
| 19 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seeing | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | parataxis |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · progressive | he | there | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come along | past | a crowd of Quails | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | coyote not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | crowd | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | coyote | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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