The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 89
Soon all the armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants met at the foot of the pine, and held a council.
Who acts: armies · What happens: meet, hold · To what, where: foot, council
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 (armies), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 met | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 armies | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 armies | det |
| 4 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 met | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ants | det |
| 7 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Ants | amod |
| 8 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Ants | amod |
| 9 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 armies | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Ants | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ants | det |
| 12 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ants | flat |
| 13 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ants | compound |
| 14 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Ants | conj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foot | det |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pine | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pine | det |
| 21 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 foot | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 held | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 held | cc |
| 24 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 met | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 council | det |
| 26 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 held | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | all armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants | the foot of the pine | soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hold | past | all armies of the Little Black Ants and the Big Red Ants not said here | a council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=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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