The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 13
A brave sight it was, the army of these little people, singing and dancing and waving their spears.
Who acts: brave sight · What happens: be, sing, dance, wave · To what, where: army, spears
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 (brave sight), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sight | amod |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 army | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 army | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 army | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 army | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 people | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 army | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 singing | punct |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 army | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dancing | cc |
| 16 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 singing | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 waving | cc |
| 18 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 singing | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spears | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 waving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 army | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a brave sight | the army | of this little people; sight nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | a brave sight not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | a brave sight not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wave | gerund | a brave sight not said here | warriors's spears | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient |
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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