The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 27
“Is _that_ the reason?” ask all the boys, who have been listening with big black eyes intent.
Who acts: _, boys · What happens: be, _, ask, listen · To what, where: _, reason · 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 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 (_, boys), 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 | _ | 3 _ | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 _ | cop |
| 3 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 _ | nsubj |
| 5 | _ | _ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 _ | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reason | det |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 _ | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 _ | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 _ | punct |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 boys | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ask | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 listening | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 listening | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 listening | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 listening | aux |
| 18 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 boys | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 intent | case |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 intent | compound |
| 23 | intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 listening | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | _ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | _ in a quote | present | _ | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | all boys | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | present · perfect · progressive | all boys | with eyes intent | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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