The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 83
They had the blue lightning which belongs in the West; and the yellow lightning of the North; and the red lightning of the East; and the white lightning of the South; and with all these they played merrily.
Who acts: corn, blue lightning · What happens: have, belong, play · To what, where: blue lightning, West
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, blue lightning), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lightning | det |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lightning | amod |
| 5 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 belongs | nsubj |
| 7 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lightning | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 West | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 West | det |
| 10 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 belongs | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lightning | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lightning | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lightning | det |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lightning | amod |
| 15 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 North | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 North | det |
| 18 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lightning | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 lightning | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lightning | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lightning | det |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lightning | amod |
| 23 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 East | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 East | det |
| 26 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lightning | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 lightning | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lightning | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lightning | det |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lightning | amod |
| 31 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 South | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 South | det |
| 34 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 lightning | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 played | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 played | cc |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 these | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 these | det:predet |
| 39 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 played | obl |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 played | nsubj |
| 41 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 42 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 41 played | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | corn | the blue lightning | the yellow lightning of the North conj; the red lightning of the East conj; the white lightning of the South conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=Patient | |||
| 2 | belong | present | the blue lightning | the West | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | play | past | corn | with these; merrily property | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with this=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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