The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 139
“Come down,” said the voice, and hearing her name the fifty young Deer-warriors--who had carefully whetted their horns--stood ready.
Who acts: voice, Peé · What happens: come down, say, hear, whet, stand, name · To what, where: name, fifty young Deer warriors · 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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, Peé), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hearing | cc |
| 11 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hearing | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 warriors | det |
| 15 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 warriors | nummod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 warriors | amod |
| 17 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 warriors | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Deer | punct |
| 19 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hearing | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 whetted | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 whetted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 whetted | aux |
| 23 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 24 whetted | advmod |
| 24 | whetted | whet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 warriors | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 horns | nmod:poss |
| 26 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 whetted | obj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 29 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stood | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down in a quote | infinitive | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | the voice not said here | Peé's name | the fifty young Deer warriors obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | whet | past · perfect · passive | the fifty young Deer warriors | warriors's horns obj; carefully property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | the voice not said here | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | name | Peé | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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