The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 101
But this time they went up and hid themselves under the right arm of the Sun.[55] The old witch hunted everywhere, and used all her bad power, but in vain; and when she was tired out she had to cry, “_Hee-táh-ow!
Who acts: boys, time, woman · What happens: go up, hide, hunt, use, be, have · To what, where: time, boys, right arm, old witch, bad power, Hee táh ow
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 (boys, time, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 hid | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 arm | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 arm | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 arm | amod |
| 13 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sun. | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sun. | det |
| 16 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 arm | nmod |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 55 | punct |
| 18 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Sun. | appos |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 55 | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 witch | amod |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obj |
| 23 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 witch | acl |
| 24 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 hunted | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 used | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 used | cc |
| 27 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hid | conj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 power | det:predet |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 power | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 power | amod |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 used | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 vain | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 vain | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 vain | case |
| 35 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 used | parataxis |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 had | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 had | cc |
| 38 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 41 tired | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 tired | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 tired | cop |
| 41 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 had | advcl |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 tired | compound:prt |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 had | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hid | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 cry | mark |
| 46 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 had | xcomp |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 ow | punct |
| 48 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 ow | punct |
| 49 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 54 ow | punct |
| 50 | Hee | Hee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 ow | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 Hee | punct |
| 52 | táh | táh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 ow | compound |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 táh | punct |
| 54 | ow | ow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cry | obl |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | boys = boy | this time not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient time=Extent | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | this time | boys = boy | the right arm of the Sun. | the old witch obj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | hunt | participle | the old witch not said here | everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | use | past | this time not said here | woman's bad power | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | woman | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | woman not said here | Hee táh ow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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