The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 9
When this was done, the Mice raised a terrible war-whoop and rushed upon the warriors, brandishing their spears.
Who acts: Mice · What happens: do, raise, rush, brandish · To what, where: this, terrible war whoop, warriors, 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 (Mice), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 raised | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mice | det |
| 7 | Mice | Mice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 raised | nsubj |
| 8 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 whoop | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whoop | amod |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whoop | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 war | punct |
| 13 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raised | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rushed | cc |
| 15 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 raised | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 warriors | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 warriors | det |
| 18 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rushed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brandishing | punct |
| 20 | brandishing | brandish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 rushed | advcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 spears | nmod:poss |
| 22 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brandishing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | raise | past | the Mice | a terrible war whoop | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whoop=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | the Mice not said here | the warriors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon warrior=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | brandish | gerund | the Mice not said here | warriors's spears | tree rules |
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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