The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 159
As it came trundling to them, both grasped it at the same instant; and lo! instead of the Yellow-Corn-Maidens, there were two great snakes, with tears rolling down ugly faces.
Who acts: hoop, two great snakes, tears · What happens: come, trundle, grasp, be, roll down · To what, where: sisters, hoop, same instant, Yellow Corn Maidens, ugly faces
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 (hoop, two great snakes, tears), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | trundling | trundle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trundling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grasped | punct |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 9 grasped | cc:preconj |
| 9 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grasped | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 instant | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 instant | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 instant | amod |
| 14 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grasped | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lo | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lo | cc |
| 17 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 3 came | discourse |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 lo | punct |
| 19 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 26 Maidens | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 instead | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Maidens | det |
| 22 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Maidens | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Yellow | punct |
| 24 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Maidens | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Corn | punct |
| 26 | Maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lo | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 were | punct |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 were | expl |
| 29 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Maidens | acl |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 snakes | nummod |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 snakes | amod |
| 32 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 were | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tears | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 tears | case |
| 35 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 snakes | appos |
| 36 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 tears | acl |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 36 rolling | advmod |
| 38 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 faces | amod |
| 39 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rolling | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hoop | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | trundle | gerund | hoop not said here | sisters = sister | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | grasp | past | hoop not said here | hoop | the same instant | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | be | past | two great snakes | the Yellow Corn Maidens not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot maiden=Theme | |||
| 5 | roll down | gerund | tears not said here | ugly faces | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Agent |
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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