The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 109
_” shouted the Captain of the Little Black Ants, and Kahp-too-óo-yoo opened his eyes; but he could see nothing below.
Who acts: Kahp · What happens: shout, open, see · To what, where: Captain, eyes, nothing
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kahp), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouted | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouted | punct |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Captain | det |
| 5 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ants | det |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Black | amod |
| 9 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Ants | amod |
| 10 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Captain | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opened | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 opened | cc |
| 13 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kahp | punct |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 yoo | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 too | punct |
| 17 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yoo | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 óo | punct |
| 19 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Kahp | list |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouted | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 opened | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 see | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shouted | conj |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | below | below | ADV | _ | 28 nothing | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | the Captain of the Black Ants | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Topic | |||||
| 2 | open in a quote | past | Kahp óo yoo | Kahp's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | could | Kahp | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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