The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 24
In the morning they all went out into the fields, far down in the valley, to hoe their corn, leaving Tái-oh at home.
Who acts: people · What happens: go out, hoe, leave · To what, where: fields, corn, Tái, home
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fields | det |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 down | punct |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 down | advmod |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 went | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 valley | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 valley | det |
| 16 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hoe | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hoe | mark |
| 19 | hoe | hoe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 corn | nmod:poss |
| 21 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hoe | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leaving | punct |
| 23 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hoe | advcl |
| 24 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 leaving | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Tái | punct |
| 26 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 23 leaving | discourse |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaving | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | people | the fields | morning | in the valley; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | hoe | to-infinitive | people not said here | people's corn | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | people not said here | Tái | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tái=Theme at home=Location |
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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