The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 6
“Oh, we are dancing with our mothers,” said the Crows.
Who acts: we, Crows · What happens: dance, say · 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 (we, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 dancing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dancing | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dancing | aux |
| 6 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mothers | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dancing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancing | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancing | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Crows | det |
| 14 | Crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance in a quote | present · progressive | we | with our mothers | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Crows | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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