The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 73
“Oh, my son!” cried the poor old woman, “in what captivity do you find yourself?
Who acts: son, you · What happens: cry, find · To what, where: poor old woman, yourself · 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 (son, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 son | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 find | obl |
| 17 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | my son | the poor old woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present · do-support | you | yourself | what captivity obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic |
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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