The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 73
Then a young woman who was a stranger came and pushed them apart and danced between them.
Who acts: young woman · What happens: be, come, push, dance · To what, where: stranger, boys
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stranger | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stranger | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | conj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pushed | cc |
| 11 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pushed | obj |
| 13 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 11 pushed | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 danced | cc |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 danced | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a young woman and a stranger | a stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a young woman and a stranger | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push | past | a young woman and a stranger not said here | boys = boy | apart property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | dance | past | a young woman and a stranger not said here | between boys = boy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Location |
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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