The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 130
But the poor old people were dying of weakness, and could not rise; and the sisters went alone.
Who acts: poor old people, sisters · What happens: die, not rise, go
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 (poor old people, sisters), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 dying | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dying | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dying | aux |
| 7 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rise | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 weakness | case |
| 9 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dying | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rise | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rise | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 rise | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 rise | advmod |
| 14 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sisters | det |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rise | conj |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · progressive | the poor old people | of weakness | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of weakness=Causer | ||||
| 2 | not rise | could | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | the sisters | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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