The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 103
So, taking hold of the rope, they ran toward Acoma, and the Bear came behind them as if leaping.
Who acts: Twins, Bear · What happens: take, run, come, leap, hold · To what, where: hold, Acoma, Twins, rope
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twins, Bear), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ran | advcl |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rope | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 Acoma | case |
| 12 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Bear | det |
| 16 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 19 them | advmod |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 leaping | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 leaping | mark |
| 22 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 came | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Twins = twin not said here | hold of the rope | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Twins = twin | Acoma | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward acoma=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the Bear | Twins = twin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leap | gerund | the Bear not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hold | the rope | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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