The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 118
There was plenty of rain, and the river began to run again, and the springs flowed.
Who acts: plenty, river, springs · What happens: be, begin, run, flow
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, river, springs), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rain | case |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plenty | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flowed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flowed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 springs | det |
| 17 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flowed | nsubj |
| 18 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | plenty of rain | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the river | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | the river not said here | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flow | past | the springs | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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