The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 5
The boys pricked up their ears; and bright-faced Manuelito[109] turned to his white-headed grandfather, and said:
Who acts: boys, faced Manuelito · What happens: prick up, turn, head, say · To what, where: ears · 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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, faced Manuelito), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pricked | nsubj |
| 3 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pricked | compound:prt |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pricked | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Manuelito | cc |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 faced | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bright | punct |
| 11 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Manuelito | amod |
| 12 | Manuelito | Manuelito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 109 | punct |
| 14 | 109 | 109 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Manuelito | appos |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 109 | punct |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pricked | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 grandfather | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 headed | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 white | punct |
| 21 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 grandfather | amod |
| 22 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pricked | parataxis |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick up | past | the boys | boys's ears | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | faced Manuelito | to Manuelito's headed grandfather result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to grandfather=Result | ||||
| 3 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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