The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 20
Greatly alarmed, he crept back to a safe distance, and then hurried home and told his aged mother all that had happened, asking her if he should report it to the Cacique.
Who acts: chief, that · What happens: alarm, creep back, hurry, tell, happen, ask · To what, where: aged mother, deer, distance, Cacique · 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 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 (chief, that), 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 | Greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 2 alarmed | advmod |
| 2 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 crept | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 alarmed | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 crept | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 distance | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 distance | det |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 distance | amod |
| 10 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hurried | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 hurried | advmod |
| 14 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crept | parataxis |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 hurried | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurried | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mother | amod |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | iobj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 happened | det:predet |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 happened | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 happened | aux |
| 24 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 told | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 asking | punct |
| 26 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 happened | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asking | obj |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 report | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 report | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 report | aux |
| 31 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 asking | xcomp |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 report | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Cacique | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Cacique | det |
| 35 | Cacique | Cacique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 report | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | participle | chief not said here | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | creep back | past | chief | to a safe distance | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to distance=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hurry | past | then | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | chief's aged mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | gerund | that not said here | deer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | report a condition, not said to happen | should | chief | distance | the Cacique | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to cacique=Recipient |
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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