The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 80
Going in, they took the lightning and played with it awhile, throwing it from one to the other, and at last started home, carrying their strange toy with them.
Who acts: corn · What happens: go in, take, play, throw, start, carry · To what, where: lightning, room, last, strange toy
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 (corn), 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 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Going | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Going | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lightning | det |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 played | cc |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 played | obl |
| 12 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 9 played | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throwing | punct |
| 14 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 played | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 throwing | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 throwing | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 started | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 started | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 started | obl |
| 25 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 started | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 carrying | punct |
| 28 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 started | advcl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 toy | nmod:poss |
| 30 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 toy | amod |
| 31 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carrying | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carrying | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | gerund | corn not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | corn | the lightning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Theme | ||||
| 3 | play | past | corn not said here | with room; awhile property | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | gerund | corn not said here | room | from one to the other | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from one=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | start | past | corn not said here | last | home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | carry | gerund | corn not said here | corn's strange toy | with corn | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme |
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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