The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 125
When he came to the end of the wet, he played and sang again; and again the rain fell as far as his voice was heard.
Who acts: voice, rain · What happens: come, play, sing, fall, hear · To what, where: end, voice
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 (voice, rain), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 played | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wet | det |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 played | nsubj |
| 12 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sang | cc |
| 14 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 played | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 sang | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 fell | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rain | det |
| 20 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 played | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 fell | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 heard | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 voice | nmod:poss |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heard | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | aux:pass |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 far | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | voice | to the end of the wet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | play | past | voice | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | voice not said here | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the rain | again | far property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | hear | past · passive | voice's voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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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