The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 60
It was so little that she thought it must be imaginary; but she stopped to listen, and softly, softly it came again:
Who acts: song, Maiden · What happens: be, think, stop, listen, come · 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 (song, Maiden), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 little | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 little | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 little | advmod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 thought | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 little | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 imaginary | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 imaginary | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 imaginary | cop |
| 11 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 little | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 listen | mark |
| 17 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stopped | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 20 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 22 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stopped | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | song | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Maiden | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | must | song | imaginary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | Maiden | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | listen | to-infinitive | Maiden not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come | past | song | again | softly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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