The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 20
Next day the crier was sent out to call upon all the people to prepare for a great hunt, in four days, to capture the Indian boy who lived with the antelopes.
Who acts: Indian boy · What happens: send out, call, prepare, capture, live · To what, where: crier, Indian boy · 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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian boy), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crier | det |
| 4 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 sent | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 call | mark |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 people | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 call | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 prepare | mark |
| 15 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 call | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 hunt | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hunt | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hunt | amod |
| 19 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prepare | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 days | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 days | nummod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hunt | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 capture | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 capture | mark |
| 26 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prepare | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 28 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boy | amod |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 capture | obj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 lived | nsubj |
| 31 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 boy | acl:relcl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 antelopes | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 antelopes | det |
| 34 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lived | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past · passive | the crier | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | upon all people | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | prepare | to-infinitive | for a great hunt and four days | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for hunt=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | capture | to-infinitive | the Indian boy | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | |||||
| 5 | live | past | the Indian boy | with the antelopes | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with antelope=Location |
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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