The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 8
Taking pity on the child, he picked it up and carried it across the plain until he came to a herd of antelopes.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: take, pick up, carry, come · To what, where: pity, plain, herd
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 (Coyote), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 picked | advcl |
| 2 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 child | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 picked | nsubj |
| 8 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 picked | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 picked | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 picked | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 plain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plain | det |
| 16 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carried | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 herd | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 herd | det |
| 22 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 antelopes | case |
| 24 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 herd | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Coyote not said here | pity | on the child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on child=Destination | |||
| 2 | pick up | past | Coyote | pity | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Coyote not said here | pity | the plain | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | past | Coyote | a herd of antelopes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herd=Initial_Location |
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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