The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 21
How the hail comes!” they cried excitedly, and began to throw stones at the swinging bag as hard as ever they could.
Who acts: hail, Blackbirds · What happens: come, cry, begin, throw · To what, where: stones, swinging bag
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbirds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hail, Blackbirds), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 comes | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hail | det |
| 3 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | advcl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | excitedly | excitedly | ADV | _ | 8 cried | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 throw | mark |
| 14 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 throw | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 bag | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bag | det |
| 18 | swinging | swinging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bag | compound |
| 19 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throw | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 hard | advmod |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 began | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 ever | case |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 hard | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 could | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hard | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the hail | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Blackbirds = blackbird | excitedly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | past | Blackbirds = blackbird not said here | ever | hard property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | throw in a quote | to-infinitive | Blackbirds = blackbird not said here | stones | the swinging bag | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at bag=Destination |
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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