The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 37
When they said the word, Sun-Arrow and the girl went running like young antelope, side by side.
Who acts: elders, girl · What happens: say, go, run · To what, where: word · 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 (elders, girl), 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 | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Arrow | punct |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Arrow | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sun | punct |
| 9 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 word | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Arrow | conj |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 went | xcomp |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 antelope | case |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 antelope | amod |
| 17 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 running | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 side | punct |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 antelope | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 running | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | elders = elder | the word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the girl | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | the girl not said here | like young antelope and side; by side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=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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