The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 11
So the warriors could do nothing but run from their tiny foes, and up the ladder to the roof they rushed pell-mell and thence fled to their homes, leaving the Mice victorious.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: do, run, rush, mell, flee, leave · To what, where: nothing, tiny foes, pell, homes, Mice
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warriors), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 warriors | det |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 run | cc |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 foes | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 foes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 foes | amod |
| 12 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 run | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mell | cc |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 ladder | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ladder | det |
| 17 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mell | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 roof | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roof | det |
| 20 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ladder | nmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rushed | nsubj |
| 22 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 roof | acl:relcl |
| 23 | pell | pell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rushed | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 pell | punct |
| 25 | mell | mell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fled | cc |
| 27 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 28 fled | advmod |
| 28 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 mell | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 homes | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 homes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fled | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 leaving | punct |
| 33 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 fled | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Mice | det |
| 35 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 leaving | obj |
| 36 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 leaving | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | the warriors | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run | present | the warriors not said here | warriors's tiny foes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from foe=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | warriors = warrior | pell | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pell=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | mell | infinitive | up the ladder to the roof | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | flee | past | warriors's homes | thence property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | the Mice | victorious property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
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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