The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 72
And Quee-ah-níd-deh, whose voice was big, ran out into the plains, up and down, _pregonando_[87] to all the animals; and they came hurrying from all places.
Who acts: voice, Quee, animals · What happens: be, run out, come, hurry · To what, where: 87, plains, places
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 (voice, Quee, animals), 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 | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 2 | Quee | Quee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 deh | punct |
| 4 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 deh | discourse |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ah | punct |
| 6 | níd | níd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deh | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 níd | punct |
| 8 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Quee | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 big | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 big | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 big | cop |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deh | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quee | punct |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 plains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plains | det |
| 19 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ran | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 up | punct |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 ran | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 down | cc |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 up | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pregonando | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 pregonando | punct |
| 26 | pregonando | pregonando | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | parataxis |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 28 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 29 87 | punct |
| 29 | 87 | 87 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 ran | obl |
| 30 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 29 87 | punct |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 animals | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 animals | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 animals | det |
| 34 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 87 | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 came | cc |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ran | conj |
| 39 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 came | xcomp |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 places | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 places | det |
| 42 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 hurrying | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | voice | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run out | past | Quee | 87 to all animals | into the plains result; pregonando parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into plain=Result | |||
| 3 | come | past | animals = animal | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hurry | gerund | animals = animal not said here | all places | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=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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