The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 28
Then they sailed out over the fields, where Tái-oh’s parents and his sister were at work; and all the three began to cry, and went home in great sorrow.
Who acts: people, Tái parents, three · What happens: sail out, be, begin, cry, go · To what, where: fields, work, great sorrow
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, Tái parents, three), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 fields | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sailed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 parents | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 parents | advmod |
| 10 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 parents | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tái | punct |
| 12 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 14 parents | discourse |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 oh | case |
| 14 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fields | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sister | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 parents | conj |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 parents | acl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 work | case |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 were | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 three | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 three | det |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 began | nsubj |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 cry | mark |
| 28 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 began | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 32 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 sorrow | case |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sorrow | amod |
| 35 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail out | past | people | the fields Tái parents and boy's sister | then | out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over field=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | be | past | Tái parents and boy's sister not said here | work | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at work=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | all three | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | all three not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | people not said here | great sorrow | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sorrow=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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