The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 31
As soon as the Rabbit was near them, the Quails flew a little way, and he kept running after them.
Who acts: Rabbit, Quails · What happens: be, fly, keep, run · To what, where: little way
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 (Rabbit, Quails), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 flew | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 them | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 5 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 them | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 them | cop |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 soon | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Quails | det |
| 11 | Quails | Quail | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kept | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kept | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kept | nsubj |
| 19 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 20 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 kept | xcomp |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 running | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Rabbit | near coyote | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the Quails | a little way | soon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 3 | keep | past | Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run | gerund | Rabbit not said here | after Quails = quail | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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