The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 32
At last he and his antelope mother were the only ones left, and when she broke through the line on the northeast he followed her and fell at the feet of his own human mother, who sprang forward and clasped him in her arms.
Who acts: hunter, circle, own human mother · What happens: be, leave, break, follow, fall, spring · To what, where: only ones, last, line, circle, feet, hunter
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 (hunter, circle, own human mother), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ones | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ones | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mother | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | compound |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 he | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ones | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ones | det |
| 10 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ones | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 followed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 followed | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 broke | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 broke | nsubj |
| 17 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 followed | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 line | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 line | det |
| 20 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broke | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 northeast | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 northeast | det |
| 23 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broke | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 followed | nsubj |
| 25 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ones | parataxis |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 followed | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fell | cc |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 followed | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 feet | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 feet | det |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fell | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 mother | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mother | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 mother | amod |
| 35 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 mother | amod |
| 36 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feet | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sprang | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 sprang | nsubj |
| 39 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 mother | parataxis |
| 40 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 39 sprang | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 clasped | cc |
| 42 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 sprang | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 clasped | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 arms | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 arms | nmod:poss |
| 46 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 clasped | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hunter | the only ones | last | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | the only ones not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | past | circle | the line | on the northeast | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through line=Location | |||
| 4 | follow | past | hunter | circle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | hunter not said here | the feet of hunter's own human mother | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||||
| 6 | spring | past | hunter's own human mother | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | clasp | past | hunter's own human mother not said here | hunter | circle's arms | vn hold-15.1-1 «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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