The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 15
_” chorused Ramón and Benito, and Fat Juan, and Tomás,[20] very eagerly; for they were particularly fond of hearing about the exploits of the greatest of Tée-wahn medicine-men.
Who acts: Ramón · What happens: chorus, be, hear · To what, where: Ramón
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 (Ramón), 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 chorused | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chorused | punct |
| 3 | chorused | chorus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ramón | Ramón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chorused | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Benito | cc |
| 6 | Benito | Benito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ramón | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Juan | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Juan | cc |
| 9 | Fat | Fat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Juan | compound |
| 10 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ramón | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tomás | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Tomás | cc |
| 13 | Tomás | Tomás | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chorused | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 20 | punct |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 20 | punct |
| 16 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Tomás | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 20 | punct |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 eagerly | advmod |
| 19 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 3 chorused | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 fond | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 fond | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fond | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fond | cop |
| 24 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 25 fond | advmod |
| 25 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chorused | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 hearing | mark |
| 27 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 fond | advcl |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 exploits | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 exploits | det |
| 30 | exploits | exploit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hearing | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 greatest | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 greatest | det |
| 33 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 exploits | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Tée | case |
| 35 | Tée | Tée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 greatest | obl |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tée | punct |
| 37 | wahn | wahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Tée | flat |
| 38 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 men | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 medicine | punct |
| 40 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Tée | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chorused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chorus in a quote | past | Ramón and Benito and Fat Juan | Tomás obl; eagerly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Ramón | fond, particularly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | gerund | Ramón not said here | about the exploits of the greatest of Tée medicine men | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about exploit=Stimulus |
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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