The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 35
Then they untied the rope and let the bag slowly to the ground, and loosened the noose at the neck and flew up into the trees with sober faces.
Who acts: hearts · What happens: untie, let, loosen, fly up · To what, where: rope, bag, ground, noose, neck, trees
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 (hearts), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 untied | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 untied | nsubj |
| 3 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rope | det |
| 5 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 untied | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 untied | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 let | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 loosened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 loosened | cc |
| 16 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 untied | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 noose | det |
| 18 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loosened | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 neck | det |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loosened | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flew | cc |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 loosened | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 flew | compound:prt |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 trees | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trees | det |
| 27 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flew | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 faces | case |
| 29 | sober | sober | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 faces | amod |
| 30 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untie | past | hearts = heart | the rope | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | hearts = heart not said here | the bag | the ground | slowly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to ground=Recipient | ||
| 3 | loosen | past | hearts = heart not said here | the noose | the neck | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent noose=Patient | |||
| 4 | fly up | past | hearts = heart not said here | into the trees result; with sober faces | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result |
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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