The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 14
The Crows were dancing merrily, and singing: “_Ai nana, que-ée-rah, que-ée-rah_.”
Who acts: Crows · What happens: dance, sing, rah · To what, where: Ai nana · 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 Coyote and the Crows. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crows), 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 Crows | det |
| 2 | Crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dancing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dancing | aux |
| 4 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 4 dancing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 singing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 singing | cc |
| 8 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dancing | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 nana | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 nana | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 nana | punct |
| 12 | Ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nana | compound |
| 13 | nana | nana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dancing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ée | punct |
| 15 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ée | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 que | punct |
| 17 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nana | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ée | punct |
| 19 | rah | rah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ée | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ée | punct |
| 21 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ée | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 que | punct |
| 23 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nana | appos |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 rah | punct |
| 25 | rah | rah | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 ée | parataxis |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 rah | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 ée | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 ée | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past · progressive | the Crows | Ai nana | merrily property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the Crows not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rah in a quote | infinitive | 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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