The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 21
So it was, until he had let them all go, one by one; and when he came to the very end of the hole, there were no more.
Who acts: deh, friend, more · What happens: be, go, come · To what, where: one, end
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 (deh, friend, more), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 let | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | aux |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 were | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 were | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 were | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 end | advmod |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hole | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hole | det |
| 27 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 were | expl |
| 30 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | parataxis |
| 31 | no | no | ADV | _ | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 were | nsubj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | deh | friend nsubj; Quails = quail obj; let property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | deh not said here | one by one | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | friend | to the end of the hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | be | past | more | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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