The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 41
At last a young Squirrel came running along the ledge, and, seeing him, ran back to its mother, crying:
Who acts: seeing · What happens: come, run, see, run back, cry · To what, where: ledge, frog
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 (seeing), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 Squirrel | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Squirrel | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Squirrel | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Squirrel | amod |
| 5 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 ledge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ledge | det |
| 10 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeing | punct |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ran | csubj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seeing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeing | punct |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 ran | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 crying | punct |
| 23 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 ran | advcl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | at a last young Squirrel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at squirrel=Location | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the ledge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ledge=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | frog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | run back | past | seeing | to ledge's mother result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | seeing not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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