The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 84

When they saw him, the witch-people felt confident that he was their champion, and again began to push, and taunt, and jeer at the others.

Who acts: ee, witch people, boy · What happens: see, feel, be, begin, push · To what, where: boy, champion

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 (ee, witch people, boy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 people	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 witch	punct
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
11	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 felt	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 champion	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 champion	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 champion	cop
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 champion	nmod:poss
16	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
19	again	again	ADV	_	20 began	advmod
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 push	mark
22	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 taunt	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 taunt	cc
25	taunt	taunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 jeer	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 jeer	cc
28	jeer	jeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 others	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 others	det
31	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 jeer	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	ee	boy		taunt conj; jeer at the others conj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	feel	past	the witch people			confident property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	boy	people's champion		people nmod:poss	tree rules
4	begin	past	ee not said here		again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	push	to-infinitive	ee not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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 84

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 84