The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 23
When the people of Isleta saw Sun-Arrow returning, the young men began to laugh and say: “Va!
Who acts: people, Sun Arrow, young men · What happens: see, return, begin, laugh, say · To what, where: Sun Arrow, Va · 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 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 (people, Sun Arrow, young men), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Isleta | case |
| 5 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 began | advcl |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Arrow | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sun | punct |
| 9 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Arrow | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 laugh | mark |
| 17 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 say | cc |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 laugh | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Va | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Va | punct |
| 22 | Va | Va | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 say | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the people of Isleta | Sun Arrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arrow=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | Sun Arrow not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the young men | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | laugh | to-infinitive | the young men not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the young men not said here | Va | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent va=Topic |
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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