The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 152
They went up to the edge of the _llano_, and there she let them get a glimpse of the pretty hoop.
Who acts: sisters, Moon · What happens: go up, let, get, glimpse · To what, where: sisters, glimpse, pretty hoop
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 (sisters, Moon), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 edge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 edge | det |
| 6 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 llano | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 llano | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 llano | punct |
| 10 | llano | llano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 edge | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 let | expl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 glimpse | det |
| 20 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hoop | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hoop | det |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hoop | amod |
| 24 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 glimpse | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | sisters = sister | to the edge of the llano | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Moon | sisters = sister | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | a glimpse of the pretty hoop | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | glimpse | the pretty hoop | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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