The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 113
_” cried the Captain; and when Kahp-too-óo-yoo opened his eyes he could just see the big, brown world.
Who acts: Kahp · What happens: cry, open, see · To what, where: Captain, eyes, big brown world · 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 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
| 3 | cried | cry | 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 cried | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 opened | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 opened | advmod |
| 9 | Kahp | Kahp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kahp | punct |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 yoo | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 too | punct |
| 13 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yoo | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 óo | punct |
| 15 | yoo | yoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Kahp | list |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 opened | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 opened | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 world | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 big | punct |
| 26 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 world | amod |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the Captain | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Topic | |||||
| 2 | open in a quote | past | Kahp óo yoo | Kahp's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | could | Kahp | the big brown world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=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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