The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 40
“Is that so?” cried all the boys in chorus, their eyes shining like coals.
Who acts: boys, eyes · What happens: be, cry, shine · To what, where: that · 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 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 (boys, eyes), 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 that | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 that | cop |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cried | obl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 so | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 boys | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chorus | case |
| 12 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boys | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 boys | conj |
| 16 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 eyes | acl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 coals | case |
| 18 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shining | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | all boys and boys's eyes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | boys's eyes not said here | like coals | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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