The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 71
All the devils hurried away; and when they were gone, poor Good crawled down from the chimney half dead with fright, and hurried on toward Isleta.
Who acts: devils, rays, Good · What happens: hurry away, be, crawl down, hurry · To what, where: chimney half, Isleta
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devils, rays, Good), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 devils | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devils | det |
| 3 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 hurried | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 crawled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crawled | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 gone | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | cop |
| 11 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 crawled | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 poor | punct |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gone | conj |
| 14 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 crawled | nsubj |
| 15 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurried | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 crawled | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 half | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 half | det |
| 19 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 half | compound |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 crawled | obl |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 half | amod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 fright | case |
| 23 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dead | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurried | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hurried | cc |
| 26 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hurried | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 Isleta | case |
| 28 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 29 Isleta | case |
| 29 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 hurried | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry away | participle | all devils | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | rays = ray | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | rays = ray not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | crawl down | past | Good | the chimney half | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from half=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | hurry | participle | all devils not said here | Isleta | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on isleta=Trajectory |
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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