The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 65
When she heard this, Blue-Corn-Maiden ran until she came to her sister, and cried:
Who acts: mother, Blue Corn · What happens: hear, run, come, cry · To what, where: this
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 (mother, Blue Corn), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 6 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Corn | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Blue | punct |
| 8 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Maiden | punct |
| 10 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Corn | appos |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sister | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cried | cc |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | mother | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Blue Corn | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | past | mother | to mother's sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sister=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Blue Corn not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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