The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 35
It was not long before all the country round about heard of the Antelope Boy and of his marvelous fleetness of foot.
Who acts: pueblo · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: country
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 (pueblo), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 country | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 country | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 country | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 country | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 heard | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 heard | advmod |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 country | acl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Boy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Boy | det |
| 14 | Antelope | Antelope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Boy | compound |
| 15 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fleetness | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fleetness | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fleetness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fleetness | amod |
| 20 | fleetness | fleetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Boy | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fleetness | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pueblo | before all country | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | participle | all country not said here | of the Antelope Boy and boy's marvelous fleetness of foot; about property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of boy=Stimulus |
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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