The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 38

Up to the Place of the Bell they ran, and turned back running; and when they came to the people, the girl was a little in front, and all cried:

Who acts: elders, girl · What happens: run, turn back, come, be, cry · To what, where: front

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	Up	up	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Place	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Place	det
4	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Up	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Bell	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bell	det
7	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Place	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
14	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 turned	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 little	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 little	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 little	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 little	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 came	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 front	case
30	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 little	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cried	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cried	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 cried	advmod
34	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	elders = elder			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn back	past	elders = elder not said here			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	run	gerund	elders = elder not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	elders = elder		to the people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location
5	is	past	the girl	front	little property	tree rules
6	cry speech: express	past	elders = elder not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 38