The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 26
They will surround us, intending to let all the antelopes escape from the circle.
Who acts: people, antelopes · What happens: surround, intend, let, escape · To what, where: us, circle
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 (people, antelopes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surround | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 surround | aux |
| 3 | surround | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 surround | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 intending | punct |
| 6 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 surround | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 intending | xcomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 antelopes | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 antelopes | det |
| 11 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 escape | nsubj |
| 12 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | xcomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 circle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 circle | det |
| 15 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 escape | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surround | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | future | people | us | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | intend | gerund | people not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | escape | present | all antelopes | the circle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from circle=Initial_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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