The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 37
And whenever arose the dreaded cry, “Here come the _T’ai-kár-nin_!” the children were hustled, shivering and noiseless, into the secret recesses, and the doors were shut.
Who acts: doors · What happens: arise, dread, come, hustle, shiver, be · To what, where: dreaded cry, kár nin, children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 arose | cc |
| 2 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 arose | advmod |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cry | det |
| 5 | dreaded | dread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cry | amod |
| 6 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 9 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arose | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nin | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 kár | punct |
| 13 | T’ai | T'ai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 kár | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 T’ai | punct |
| 15 | kár | kár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nin | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 kár | punct |
| 17 | nin | nin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 children | det |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hustled | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hustled | aux:pass |
| 24 | hustled | hustle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 arose | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shivering | punct |
| 26 | shivering | shiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 hustled | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 noiseless | cc |
| 28 | noiseless | noiseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hustled | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 recesses | punct |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 recesses | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 recesses | det |
| 32 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 recesses | amod |
| 33 | recesses | recess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hustled | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 shut | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 shut | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 doors | det |
| 37 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 shut | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 shut | cop |
| 39 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arose | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the dreaded cry | whenever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dread | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | the kár nin | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hustle | past · passive | the children | the secret recesses conj | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shiver | gerund | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | the doors | shut property | tree rules |
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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