The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 37
While still very young in years, they did very remarkable things; for they had a miraculously rapid growth, and at an age when other boys were toddling about home, these Hero Twins had already become very famous hunters and warriors.
Who acts: Máw, other boys, Hero Twins · What happens: do, have, toddle, become · To what, where: remarkable things, rapid growth, age, famous hunters
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, other boys, Hero Twins), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 young | mark |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 did | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 young | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 remarkable | advmod |
| 11 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 did | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 had | case |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 did | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 growth | det |
| 18 | miraculously | miraculously | ADV | _ | 19 rapid | advmod |
| 19 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 growth | amod |
| 20 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 toddling | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 toddling | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 age | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 age | det |
| 25 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 toddling | obl |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 toddling | advmod |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 boys | amod |
| 28 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 toddling | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 toddling | aux |
| 30 | toddling | toddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 had | conj |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 home | case |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 toddling | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 become | punct |
| 34 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 Twins | det |
| 35 | Hero | Hero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Twins | compound |
| 36 | Twins | Twin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 39 become | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 become | aux |
| 38 | already | already | ADV | _ | 39 become | advmod |
| 39 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 toddling | parataxis |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 famous | advmod |
| 41 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 hunters | amod |
| 42 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 become | xcomp |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 warriors | cc |
| 44 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 hunters | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Máw | remarkable things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Máw | a rapid growth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | toddle | past · progressive | other boys | at a age | about home | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at age=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | this Hero Twins | famous hunters and warriors | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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