The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 144
Then they cried for joy, and began to roast the blue ears, for they were dying of hunger.
Who acts: rooms · What happens: cry, begin, roast, die · To what, where: blue ears
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 (rooms), 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 | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 roast | mark |
| 10 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ears | det |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ears | amod |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 roast | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dying | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 dying | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dying | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dying | aux |
| 18 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 began | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hunger | case |
| 20 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dying | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | rooms = room | then | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | rooms = room not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | roast | to-infinitive | rooms = room not said here | the blue ears | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | die | past · progressive | rooms = room | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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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