The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 62

The boy sat down, and the Mole dived into the hole, but soon came back with four cigarettes.

Who acts: boy, Mole · What happens: sit down, dive, come back · To what, where: hole

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 (boy, Mole), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dived	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dived	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mole	det
8	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dived	nsubj
9	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 hole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 cigarettes	case
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cigarettes	nummod
20	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the boy			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dive	past	the Mole	the hole		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Location
3	come back	past	the boy not said here		with four cigarettes; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 62