The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 126
This time the Fool-Boy, who was wandering outside the dying village, saw the far storm and heard the singing.
Who acts: Fool Boy · What happens: wonder, die, see, hear · To what, where: far storm, singing
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 (Fool Boy), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Boy | det |
| 4 | Fool | Fool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Boy | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fool | punct |
| 6 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wandering | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wandering | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wandering | aux |
| 10 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Boy | acl |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 13 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 village | amod |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wandering | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Boy | punct |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 storm | det |
| 18 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 storm | amod |
| 19 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 singing | det |
| 23 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | the Fool Boy | outside the dying village | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | the Fool Boy | the far storm | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hear | past | the Fool Boy not said here | the singing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer singing=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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