The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 24
Next morning he started very early and came to the village of his friend; and together they went to the mountain.
Who acts: man, ’s · What happens: start, come, go · To what, where: village, mountain
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 (man, ’s), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 early | advmod |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 started | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 village | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 friend | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 village | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 mountain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mountain | det |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | man | morning | early property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | come | past | man not said here | the village of man's friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | ’s = ' | the mountain | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location |
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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