The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 100
It was their last turn now, and the old woman felt very triumphant as she waited for them to hide.
Who acts: crane, old woman, woman · What happens: be, feel, wait, hide · To what, where: last turn
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane, old woman, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nmod:poss |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 turn | amod |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 turn | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 triumphant | advmod |
| 14 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 waited | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 waited | nsubj |
| 17 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 triumphant | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 waited | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 hide | mark |
| 21 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 waited | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | crane | boys's last turn | now | boys = boy nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 2 | feel | past | the old woman | triumphant property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | woman | for boys = boy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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