The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 39
Each girl carried in her left hand a little jar of meal; and as they passed the door one by one, each took from the jar a handful and threw it against the magic dipper.
Who acts: girl, girls, each · What happens: carry, pass, take, throw · To what, where: little jar, left hand, door, handful, jar, magic dipper
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 (girl, girls, each), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 jar | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jar | amod |
| 10 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 meal | case |
| 12 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jar | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passed | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 passed | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 door | flat |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 passed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 jar | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 jar | det |
| 28 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 handful | det |
| 30 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 threw | cc |
| 32 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 threw | obj |
| 34 | against | against | ADP | _ | 37 dipper | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dipper | det |
| 36 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dipper | amod |
| 37 | dipper | dipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 threw | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | each girl | a little jar of meal | Shee's left hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jar=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | pass | past | girls = girl | the door | by one | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent door=Theme by one=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | each | a handful | the jar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from jar=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | throw | past | each not said here | door | the magic dipper | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme against dipper=Destination |
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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