The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 105
The brothers kept repeating their words, and soon the water was knee-deep.
Who acts: brothers, water, guajes · What happens: keep, repeat, be, word · To what, where: words, knee
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, water, guajes), 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 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 repeating | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knee | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knee | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 knee | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knee | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knee | cop |
| 13 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 deep | punct |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knee | amod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | repeat | gerund | the brothers not said here | guajes's words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the water | knee | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | word | guajes = guaje | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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