The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 129
Then the sisters came out of the house and saw the rain and heard the song; and they cried for joy, and told their parents to rise and meet him.
Who acts: sisters, rains · What happens: come out, see, hear, cry, tell, rise · To what, where: house, rain, song, parents, Boy · 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 (sisters, rains), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rain | det |
| 12 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 song | det |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cried | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cried | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 parents | nmod:poss |
| 27 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 told | iobj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 rise | mark |
| 29 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 told | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 meet | cc |
| 31 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 rise | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 meet | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the sisters | the house | then | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result | |||
| 2 | see | past | the sisters not said here | the rain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the sisters not said here | the song | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | rains = rain | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | rains = rain not said here | rains's parents | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | rise not said to happen | to-infinitive | rains = rain not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | meet | infinitive | rains = rain not said here | Boy | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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