The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 37
They were very confident of success, and told the Moon-girl only to pain her; and laughed derisively as she went running to her home.
Who acts: Maidens, Shee · What happens: be, tell, laugh, go, run · To what, where: Shee, Moon girl · 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 confident | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 confident | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 confident | advmod |
| 4 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 success | case |
| 6 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confident | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 confident | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 11 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Moon | punct |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | iobj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 her | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 her | mark |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 her | nsubj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 laughed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 laughed | cc |
| 20 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | conj |
| 21 | derisively | derisively | ADV | _ | 20 laughed | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 went | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 laughed | advcl |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 went | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 home | nmod:poss |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 running | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confident | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Maidens = maiden | of success; confident property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Shee | the Moon girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | derisively property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Shee | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | Shee not said here | to Shee's home result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to home=Result |
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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