The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 23
As soon as she was gone, Ees-tée-ah Muts got up and followed her at a distance, for it was a night of the full moon.
Who acts: wife, Ees tée, tée · What happens: be, get up, follow · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Ees tée, tée), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 gone | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | cop |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
| 8 | Ees | Ees | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tée | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ees | punct |
| 10 | tée | tée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 12 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 14 got | discourse |
| 13 | Muts | mut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 got | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 followed | cc |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 distance | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 distance | det |
| 21 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 night | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 night | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 night | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 moon | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moon | det |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 moon | amod |
| 31 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 night | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | gone, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | Ees tée | Muts nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Ees tée not said here | wife | at a distance | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme at distance=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is | past | tée | for a night | of the full moon | 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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