The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 93
_” (No) said the War-Captain of the Big Red Ants.
What happens: say · 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: 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 4 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 No | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Captain | det |
| 8 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Captain | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 War | punct |
| 10 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ants | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ants | det |
| 13 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ants | flat |
| 14 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ants | compound |
| 15 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Captain | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the War Captain of the Big Red Ants ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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