The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 53
_” (“Go!”) the two runners started toward the east like the wind.
Who acts: two runners · What happens: go, start
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 (two runners), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Go | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Go | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Go | punct |
| 5 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 started | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Go | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Go | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Go | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 runners | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 runners | nummod |
| 11 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 15 east | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 east | det |
| 15 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 wind | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wind | det |
| 18 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 east | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | the two runners not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | start in a quote | past | the two runners | toward the east like the wind | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
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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