The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 47
The day came, and the starting-point was surrounded by all the people of the two villages, dressed in their best.
Who acts: day, people · What happens: come, surround, dress · To what, where: starting point, two villages, best
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 (day, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 surrounded | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 surrounded | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 point | det |
| 7 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 point | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 starting | punct |
| 9 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 11 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 people | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 villages | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 villages | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 villages | nummod |
| 19 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 people | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dressed | punct |
| 21 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 villages | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 best | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 best | nmod:poss |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 dressed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | surround | past · passive | all people of the two villages | the starting point | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | the two villages not said here | people's best | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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