The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 30
“Bring him in!” shouted the chief witch, and many of them rushed out and surrounded him and dragged him into the cave.
Who acts: chief witch, many · What happens: bring in, shout, rush out, surround, drag · To what, where: man, cave · 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 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 (chief witch, many), 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 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shouted | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 Bring | compound:prt |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 witch | amod |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shouted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rushed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rushed | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rushed | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 many | nmod |
| 16 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shouted | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 rushed | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 surrounded | cc |
| 19 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 rushed | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 surrounded | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dragged | cc |
| 22 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shouted | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dragged | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 cave | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cave | det |
| 26 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dragged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in in a quote | infinitive | man | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Asset | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | the chief witch | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rush out | past | many of Ees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | surround | participle | many of Ees not said here | man | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | drag | past | the chief witch not said here | man | the cave | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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