The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 11
Every morning Shó-kee-ah left the town and went away to his home in the far North; and every evening he returned, and the air grew chill around.
Who acts: corn, air · What happens: leave, go away, return, grow around · To what, where: kee, far North
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn, air), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Shó | Shó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Shó | punct |
| 5 | kee | kee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 kee | punct |
| 7 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 left | discourse |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 North | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 North | det |
| 19 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 North | amod |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 returned | cc |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 evening | det |
| 24 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grew | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 grew | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 air | det |
| 30 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grew | nsubj |
| 31 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 32 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grew | xcomp |
| 33 | around | around | ADV | _ | 31 grew | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | kee | morning | the town obj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | |||
| 2 | go away | past | the far North | to Shó's home; away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | return | past | corn | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow around | past | the air | around, chill property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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