The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 87
“If that is so,” said the Little Black Ant, “I will be the one to help you”; and he ran down to the world as fast as he could.
Who acts: that, I, home · What happens: be, say, help, run down · To what, where: one, you · 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 (that, I, home), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ant | det |
| 10 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Black | amod |
| 11 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ant | compound |
| 12 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 one | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Ant | appos |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 one | acl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ran | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ran | nsubj |
| 27 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 ran | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ran | obl |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 fast | advmod |
| 33 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 ran | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 could | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 could | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 fast | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Black Ant ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | I | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | run down | past | home | to the world result; down, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to world=Result |
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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