The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 57
Then he called in a great voice for his wife; and all the people of the Tée-wahn came running with her.
Who acts: man, people · What happens: call, come, run · To what, where: great voice · 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 (man, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 people | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 came | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wahn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wahn | det |
| 18 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wahn | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tée | punct |
| 20 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 22 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 came | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 running | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | man | a great voice for man's wife | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | all people of the Tée wahn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | all people of the Tée wahn not said here | with wife | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with she=Material |
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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