The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 28
When they had followed the trail a long way, they saw the birds sitting and laughing under a bush.
Who acts: Quails, birds · What happens: follow, see, sit, laugh · To what, where: Quails, birds, bush
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 (Quails, birds), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 followed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | aux |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trail | det |
| 6 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 birds | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughing | cc |
| 17 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 sitting | conj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 bush | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bush | det |
| 20 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laughing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · perfect · passive | Quails = quail | a long way obl:unmarked; the trail obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme trail=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Quails = quail | the birds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | the birds not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | the birds not said here | a bush | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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