The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 58
The news of his return spread rapidly, and soon reached the village of Poo-reh-tú-ai.
Who acts: news · What happens: spread, reach, return · To what, where: village
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: who acts (news), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 return | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 return | nmod:poss |
| 5 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | nmod |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 6 spread | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 reached | advmod |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 village | det |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ai | case |
| 15 | Poo | Poo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ai | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Poo | punct |
| 17 | reh | reh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Poo | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 reh | punct |
| 19 | tú | tú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ai | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tú | punct |
| 21 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 village | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the news of news's return | rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the news of news's return not said here | the village of tú ai Poo | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | news | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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