The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 32
So he fishes in his memory for a story, while the boys turn expectant faces toward him.
Who acts: Antonio, boys · What happens: fish, turn · To what, where: memory, expectant faces
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 (Antonio, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fishes | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fishes | nsubj |
| 3 | fishes | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 memory | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 memory | nmod:poss |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fishes | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 memory | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turn | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 turn | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turn | nsubj |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fishes | conj |
| 15 | expectant | expectant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 faces | compound |
| 16 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turn | obj |
| 17 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turn | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | present | Antonio | Antonio's memory for a story | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in memory=Location | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | the boys | expectant faces | toward Antonio | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme toward he=Trajectory |
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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