The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 83
At that very instant the water rushed out harder than it had ever done.
What happens: rush out, do · To what, where: water
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 instant | nsubj |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 instant | advmod |
| 4 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 instant | obj |
| 7 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 water | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 rushed | compound:prt |
| 9 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 rushed | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 done | advmod |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 harder | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 instant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | participle | the water not said here | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect · passive | water | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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