The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 85
But when the little Antelope Boy sprang lightly across the line, far ahead of Deer-foot, their joy turned to mourning.
Who acts: little Antelope Boy, feet · What happens: spring, turn, joy · To what, where: line, joy, mourning
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 (little Antelope Boy, feet), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sprang | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Boy | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Boy | amod |
| 5 | Antelope | Antelope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Boy | compound |
| 6 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | nsubj |
| 7 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 7 sprang | advmod |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 line | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 foot | punct |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ahead | advmod |
| 14 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 18 foot | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 16 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 foot | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Deer | punct |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 joy | punct |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 joy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 foot | conj |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 joy | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 mourning | case |
| 24 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the little Antelope Boy | the line | of Deer foot and feet's joy; lightly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across line=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn | participle | feet's joy not said here | mourning | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to mourning=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | joy | feet = foot | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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