The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 12
But the two wonderful boys, as soon as they were a minute old, were big and strong, and began playing.
Who acts: boys, two wonderful boys · What happens: be, begin, play · To what, where: two wonderful boys
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 (boys, two wonderful boys), 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 | _ | 17 big | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 boys | nummod |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 big | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 minute | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 minute | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 minute | case |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 minute | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 minute | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 minute | det |
| 13 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boys | acl:relcl |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minute | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boys | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 big | cop |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 strong | cc |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 big | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 big | conj |
| 23 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 began | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boys = boy | the two wonderful boys not said here | as a minute; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the two wonderful boys | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the two wonderful boys not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | begin | past | the two wonderful boys not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | play | gerund | the two wonderful boys not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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