The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 36
The two Yellow-Corn-Maidens were just coming from their house as she passed, and told her of what was to be done.
Who acts: two Yellow Corn Maidens, Shee · What happens: come, pass, tell, do · To what, where: house, Shee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two Yellow Corn Maidens, Shee), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Maidens | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Maidens | nummod |
| 3 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Maidens | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yellow | punct |
| 5 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Maidens | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Corn | punct |
| 7 | Maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | aux |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 coming | advmod |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 passed | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 passed | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 passed | nsubj |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 passed | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 told | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 done | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 done | aux:pass |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 was | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | the two Yellow Corn Maidens | Maidens's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | Shee | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Shee not said here | Shee | what obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive · passive | Shee not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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