The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 87
Then he summoned the storm, and it began to rain and blow fearfully outside; while within the boys rattled their thunder in loud defiance, regardless of their grandmother’s entreaties to give the Storm-King his lightning.
Who acts: wrath, storm, boys · What happens: summon, begin, blow, rattle, give, thunder · To what, where: storm, rain, thunder, loud defiance, lightning, Storm King
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 (wrath, storm, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rain | mark |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 blow | cc |
| 13 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | conj |
| 14 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 13 blow | advmod |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 13 blow | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 rattled | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 rattled | mark |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 boys | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boys | det |
| 20 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rattled | nsubj |
| 21 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 thunder | nmod:poss |
| 23 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rattled | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 defiance | case |
| 25 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 defiance | amod |
| 26 | defiance | defiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rattled | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 entreaties | punct |
| 28 | regardless | regardless | ADV | _ | 33 entreaties | advmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 entreaties | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 entreaties | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 grandmother | case |
| 33 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 summoned | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 give | mark |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 summoned | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 37 | Storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 King | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Storm | punct |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 give | iobj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 lightning | nmod:poss |
| 41 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | wrath | the storm | then | of boys's grandmother's entreaties | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Recipient | ||
| 2 | begin | past | storm | rain | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | blow | infinitive | storm not said here | fearfully, outside property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rattle | past | the boys | boys's thunder | loud defiance | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | wrath not said here | wrath's lightning | the Storm King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient lightning=Theme | |||
| 6 | thunder | boys = boy | nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=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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