The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 151
In a day or two the witch-sisters did come, with deceitful words; and the Moon invited them to go out and play a game.
Who acts: witch sisters, Moon, sisters · What happens: come, invite, go out, play · To what, where: sisters, game
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch sisters, Moon, sisters), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 two | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sisters | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sisters | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 witch | punct |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 words | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 14 | deceitful | deceitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 invited | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 invited | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Moon | det |
| 19 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 invited | nsubj |
| 20 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 invited | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 invited | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 play | cc |
| 26 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 game | det |
| 28 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 play | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | the witch sisters | day | with deceitful words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | invite | past | the Moon | sisters = sister | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | a game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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