The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 23
Several different days when they went to the mountain together, the very same thing came to pass.
Who acts: sisters, same thing · What happens: go, come, pass · To what, where: mountain
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, same thing), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 2 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 same | advmod |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 pass | mark |
| 18 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sisters = sister | the mountain | day | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | come | past | the same thing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | the same thing not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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