The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 69
No sooner was it finished than he became a young antelope; and at the same instant a furious rain began.
Who acts: boy, furious rain · What happens: finish, become, begin · To what, where: face, young antelope, same instant
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, furious rain), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 finished | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux:pass |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 became | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 antelope | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 antelope | amod |
| 11 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 instant | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 instant | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 instant | amod |
| 17 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 began | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rain | det |
| 19 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rain | amod |
| 20 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 began | nsubj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | face | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | become | past | boy | a young antelope | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | a furious rain | the same instant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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