The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 122
“Is that so?” sighed all the boys in chorus, sorry that the story was so soon done.
What happens: be, sigh, do · To what, where: that, boys, chorus, story
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: 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 sighed | obl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 sighed | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ? | punct |
| 7 | sighed | sigh | 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 sighed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chorus | case |
| 12 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boys | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorry | punct |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 7 sighed | discourse |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 story | det |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 done | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 done | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 done | advmod |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sorry | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | 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 | sigh | past | all boys | chorus | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | past · passive | the story | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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