The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 18
By this time Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee were sizable boys, and the mother started homeward with them.
Who acts: Máw, mother · What happens: be, start · To what, where: sizable boys, homeward
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 (Máw, mother), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boys | obl |
| 4 | Máw | Máw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 boys | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Máw | punct |
| 6 | Sahv | Sahv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Máw | flat |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wee | cc |
| 8 | Oó | Oó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wee | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Oó | punct |
| 10 | yah | yah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wee | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 yah | punct |
| 12 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Máw | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 boys | cop |
| 14 | sizable | sizable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boys | amod |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 started | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 started | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mother | det |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 started | nsubj |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 boys | acl:relcl |
| 21 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 started | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 started | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 boys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Máw and Oó yah wee | sizable boys | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | past | the mother | homeward | with boys = boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality |
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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