The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 22
Then the Crows emptied their bags, which were filled with nothing but sand, and flew up into the tree, laughing.
Who acts: Crows · What happens: empty, fill, fly up, laugh · To what, where: bags, tree
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 emptied | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Crows | det |
| 3 | Crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 emptied | nsubj |
| 4 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bags | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 emptied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 filled | aux:pass |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bags | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 nothing | case |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 filled | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sand | cc |
| 14 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flew | cc |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 emptied | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 flew | compound:prt |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laughing | punct |
| 23 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 flew | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 emptied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | empty | past | the Crows | Crows's bags | then | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bag=Source | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | Crows's bags | with nothing sand | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with nothing=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | fly up | past | the Crows not said here | into the tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result | ||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | the Crows not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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