The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 73
Soon all the birds and all the four-feet were met in council in the room where Sun-Arrow was; and the Mountain Lion was captain.
What happens: meet, be · To what, where: birds, council, room, Lion captain
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: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 met | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 birds | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 met | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feet | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 feet | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feet | det |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 feet | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 four | punct |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 birds | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 met | aux:pass |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 council | case |
| 14 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 was | advmod |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Arrow | punct |
| 21 | Arrow | Arrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sun | conj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 room | cop |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 captain | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 captain | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Lion | det |
| 26 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Lion | compound |
| 27 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 captain | compound |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 captain | cop |
| 29 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · passive | all birds and all four feet | council | soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | the room | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Lion captain | tree rules |
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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