The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 133
And the dying crawled out to drink, and were strong again; and the withered fields grew green and glad.
Who acts: withered fields · What happens: crawl out, drink, be, wither, grow
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 (withered fields), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crawled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crawled | det |
| 3 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 crawled | aux:pass |
| 4 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 crawled | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 drink | mark |
| 7 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 crawled | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 strong | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 strong | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | cop |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 drink | advcl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 strong | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 grew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grew | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fields | det |
| 16 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 fields | amod |
| 17 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crawled | conj |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grew | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glad | cc |
| 21 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 green | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl out | gerund · passive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | again | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | grow | past | the withered fields | green property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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