The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 113
And when they saw him entering, his wife ran and cried on his shoulder, and all the people gave thanks to the Trues.
Who acts: Arrow, wahn, wife, people · What happens: see, enter, run, cry, give · To what, where: wahn, shoulder, thanks, Trues
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arrow, wahn, wife, people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entering | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 people | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 22 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Trues | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Trues | det |
| 25 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gave | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Arrow | wahn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | wahn not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | wahn's wife | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | wahn's wife not said here | wahn's shoulder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location | ||||
| 5 | give | past | all people | thanks | the Trues | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to true=Recipient |
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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