The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 49

The runner for the yellow village was a tall, sinewy athlete, strong in his early manhood; and when the Antelope Boy appeared for the other side, the witches set up a howl of derision, and began to strike their rivals and jeer at them, saying, “Pooh!

Who acts: runner, Antelope Boy, witches, derision · What happens: be, appear, set up, begin, strike, say · To what, where: tall sinewy athlete, witches, howl, rivals, Pooh · 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 (runner, Antelope Boy, witches, derision), 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 runner	det
2	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 athlete	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 village	amod
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runner	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 athlete	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 athlete	det
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 athlete	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tall	punct
11	sinewy	sinewy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 athlete	amod
12	athlete	athlete	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strong	punct
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 athlete	amod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 manhood	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 manhood	nmod:poss
17	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 manhood	amod
18	manhood	manhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strong	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 appeared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 appeared	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 appeared	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Boy	det
23	Antelope	Antelope	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Boy	compound
24	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	nsubj
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 athlete	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 side	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 side	amod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 witches	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 witches	det
32	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 appeared	obl
33	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 witches	acl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 set	compound:prt
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 howl	det
36	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 derision	case
38	derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 howl	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 began	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 began	cc
41	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 appeared	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 strike	mark
43	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 began	xcomp
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 rivals	nmod:poss
45	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 strike	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 jeer	cc
47	jeer	jeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rivals	conj
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 strike	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 saying	punct
51	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 began	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Pooh	punct
53	“	"	PUNCT	_	54 Pooh	punct
54	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 saying	obj
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 athlete	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the runner for the yellow village	a tall sinewy athlete		tree rules
2	appear	past	the Antelope Boy	the witches	for the other side	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set up	participle	the witches not said here	a howl of derision		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient howl=Result
4	begin	past	the Antelope Boy not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	strike	to-infinitive	the Antelope Boy not said here	witches's rivals and jeer	at rivals = rival	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Patient
6	say speech: assert	gerund	the Antelope Boy not said here	Pooh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pooh=Topic
7	howl		derision			nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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The tree

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 49