Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / The man who married the moon, and othe… / The Town of the Snake-girls / 62

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 62

At last, when they were about to start home, he said: “Sisters, let us come to the sand-hill to-morrow to play a little game.”

Who acts: sisters, Man, us · What happens: be, start, say, let, come, play · To what, where: last, us, sand hill, little game · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sisters, Man, us), 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

caseoblpunctadvmodnsubjcopmarkxcompadvmodpunctnsubjconjpunctpunctnsubjpunctccompobjxcompcasedetcompoundpunctoblcasepunctoblmarkadvcldetamodobjpunctpunctrootAtADPlastADJ,PUNCTwhenADVtheyPRONwereAUXaboutADJtoPARTstartVERBhomeADV,PUNCThePRONsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTSistersNOUN,PUNCTletVERBusPRONcomeVERBtoADPtheDETsandNOUN-PUNCThillNOUNtoADP-PUNCTmorrowNOUNtoPARTplayVERBaDETlittleADJgameNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lastcase
2lastlastADJDegree=Pos7 aboutobl
3,,PUNCT_2 lastpunct
4whenwhenADVPronType=Int7 aboutadvmod
5theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs7 aboutnsubj
6werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 aboutcop
7aboutaboutADJDegree=Posrootroot
8totoPART_9 startmark
9startstartVERBVerbForm=Inf7 aboutxcomp
10homehomeADV_9 startadvmod
11,,PUNCT_13 saidpunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 saidnsubj
13saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 aboutconj
14::PUNCT_16 Sisterspunct
15“"PUNCT_16 Sisterspunct
16SisterssisterNOUNNumber=Plur18 letnsubj
17,,PUNCT_16 Sisterspunct
18letletVERBVerbForm=Inf13 saidccomp
19uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs18 letobj
20comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf18 letxcomp
21totoADP_25 hillcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 hilldet
23sandsandNOUNNumber=Sing25 hillcompound
24--PUNCT_23 sandpunct
25hillhillNOUNNumber=Sing20 comeobl
26totoADP_28 morrowcase
27--PUNCT_26 topunct
28morrowmorrowNOUNNumber=Sing20 comeobl
29totoPART_30 playmark
30playplayVERBVerbForm=Inf20 comeadvcl
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 gamedet
32littlelittleADJDegree=Pos33 gameamod
33gamegameNOUNNumber=Sing30 playobj
34..PUNCT_7 aboutpunct
35”"PUNCT_7 aboutpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastsisters = sisterlastabout propertytree rules
2startto-infinitivesisters = sister not said herehome propertyvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3say speech: assertpastManvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4let in a quoteinfinitiveSistersustree rules
5come in a quoteinfinitiveus not said herethe sand hillto morrowvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location to morrow=Destination
6play in a quoteto-infinitiveus not said herea little gamevn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/62/