The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 33
Amid great rejoicing he was taken to Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee, and there he told the _principales_[7] how he had been left in the cave, how the Coyote had pitied him, and how the Mother-Antelope had reared him as her own son.
Who acts: hunter, Coyote · What happens: take, tell, leave, pity, rear · To what, where: hunter, principales, cave, Mother, Amid great rejoicing · 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 (hunter, Coyote), 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 | Amid | amid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rejoicing | amod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rejoicing | amod |
| 3 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rejoicing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 taken | obl |
| 8 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 12 tóo | discourse |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Nah | punct |
| 10 | bah | bah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tóo | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 bah | punct |
| 12 | tóo | tóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | parataxis |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tóo | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 ee | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 16 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 told | expl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoicing | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 principales | det |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 principales | punct |
| 24 | principales | principale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 told | obj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 7 | punct |
| 26 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 27 7 | punct |
| 27 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 principales | appos |
| 28 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 27 7 | punct |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 left | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 left | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 left | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 left | aux:pass |
| 33 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 told | ccomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 cave | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cave | det |
| 36 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 left | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 pitied | punct |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 pitied | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Coyote | det |
| 40 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 pitied | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 pitied | aux |
| 42 | pitied | pity | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 left | advcl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 pitied | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 reared | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 reared | cc |
| 46 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 52 reared | advmod |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Mother | det |
| 48 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 reared | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 Antelope | punct |
| 50 | Antelope | Antelope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Mother | appos |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 reared | aux |
| 52 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 told | conj |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 reared | obj |
| 54 | as | as | ADP | _ | 57 son | case |
| 55 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 son | nmod:poss |
| 56 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 son | amod |
| 57 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 reared | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoicing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | hunter | ee obl; bah tóo parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | hunter | the principales | there | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent principale=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect · passive | hunter | the cave | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cave=Location | ||||
| 4 | pity | past · perfect | the Coyote | hunter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | rear | past · perfect · passive | the Mother | as mother's own son; hunter obj | tree rules |
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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