The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 97
They were so many that they covered its trunk all the way to the sky.
Who acts: armies · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: trunk
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 many | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 many | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 covered | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 covered | nsubj |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 many | advcl |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 9 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 way | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sky | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | armies = army | many property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | armies = army | cup's trunk | all way to the sky parataxis | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Destination |
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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