The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 54
They all crowded around to congratulate him and to listen to what had befallen him.
What happens: congratulate, listen, befall · To what, where: Man
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crowded | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 crowded | det |
| 3 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 congratulate | mark |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 congratulate | mark |
| 6 | congratulate | congratulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crowded | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 congratulate | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 listen | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 listen | mark |
| 10 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 congratulate | conj |
| 11 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 14 befallen | mark |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 befallen | aux |
| 14 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 listen | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 befallen | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | congratulate | to-infinitive | Man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | befall | past · perfect · passive | Man | what nsubj:pass | tree rules |
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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