The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 82
But at that very moment, the two witch-sisters pushed her head foremost into the _pozo_, and drowned her; and then filled the well with earth, and went away as happy as wicked hearts can be.
Who acts: two witch sisters · What happens: be, drown, fill, go away · To what, where: pozo, Moon, the
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 witch sisters), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 pushed | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 moment | advmod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sisters | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sisters | nummod |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sisters | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 witch | punct |
| 11 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pushed | nsubj |
| 12 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | obj |
| 15 | foremost | foremost | ADV | _ | 12 pushed | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 pozo | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pozo | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 pozo | punct |
| 19 | pozo | pozo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | obl |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 pushed | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drowned | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drowned | cc |
| 23 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pushed | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drowned | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 filled | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 filled | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 filled | advmod |
| 28 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pushed | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 filled | obj |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 filled | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 earth | case |
| 32 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 filled | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 went | cc |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pushed | conj |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 went | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 happy | advmod |
| 38 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 went | xcomp |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 hearts | case |
| 40 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 hearts | amod |
| 41 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 happy | obl |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pushed | advcl |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pushed | cop |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | the two witch sisters | the pozo | moment | Moon's head obj; foremost, push property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | drown | past | the two witch sisters not said here | Moon | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | the two witch sisters not said here | the | then | with earth; well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent the=Patient with earth=Instrument | ||
| 4 | go away | past | the two witch sisters not said here | away, happy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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