The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 5

Chased by the Apaches, she escaped to her own village, and it was several days before she could return to the cave--only to find it empty.

Who acts: starvation, village · What happens: chase, escape, be, return, find · To what, where: own village, several days, village

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 (starvation, village), 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	Chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 escaped	advcl
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 Apaches	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Apaches	det
4	Apaches	apache	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chased	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chased	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 escaped	nsubj
7	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 village	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 village	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 village	amod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escaped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 days	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 days	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 days	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 days	cop
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 escaped	obl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 return	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 return	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 return	aux
21	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 escaped	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 cave	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cave	det
24	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 return	obl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 find	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 find	mark
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 return	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	obj
30	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 find	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 escaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chase	participle	starvation not said here			by the Apaches	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by apache=Trajectory
2	escape	past	starvation		starvation's own village		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
3	is a	past	village	several days			tree rules
4	return	could	starvation			to the cave result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result
5	find	to-infinitive	starvation not said here	village		empty property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 5