The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 104

The old witch, taking her last turn, went to the lake and entered into a fish, thinking that there she would be perfectly safe from discovery.

Who acts: old witch, woman · What happens: take, go, enter, think, be · To what, where: last turn, lake, discovery · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old witch, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
5	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 witch	acl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 turn	nmod:poss
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 turn	amod
8	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 witch	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 entered	cc
15	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 fish	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fish	det
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thinking	punct
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 entered	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 safe	mark
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 safe	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 safe	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 safe	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 safe	cop
26	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	27 safe	advmod
27	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thinking	ccomp
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 discovery	case
29	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 safe	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	the old witch not said here	woman's last turn			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
2	go	past	the old witch		the lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
3	enter	past	the old witch not said here			into a fish	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into fish=Initial_Location
4	think speech: other	gerund	the old witch not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	would	woman		discovery; there	perfectly, safe property	tree rules

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 104