The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 108
As she came walking toward them in her natural shape again, they called: “Remember the agreement!” and with their sharp arrows they killed the old witch-woman and then the old witch-man.
Who acts: woman, boys · What happens: come, walk, call, remember, kill · To what, where: natural shape, agreement, old witch woman · 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 (woman, boys), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | advcl |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walking | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 shape | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shape | nmod:poss |
| 9 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shape | amod |
| 10 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 walking | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Remember | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Remember | punct |
| 17 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 called | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 agreement | det |
| 19 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Remember | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 Remember | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Remember | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 killed | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 arrows | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arrows | amod |
| 26 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 killed | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 killed | nsubj |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 woman | det |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 woman | amod |
| 31 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 woman | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 witch | punct |
| 33 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 killed | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 man | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 man | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 38 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 man | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 witch | punct |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 woman | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | woman not said here | woman's natural shape | again | toward boys = boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | call speech: express | past | boys = boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | remember in a quote | infinitive | boys = boy not said here | the agreement | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | past | boys = boy | the old witch woman and the old witch man | with boys's sharp arrows | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent woman=Patient with arrow=Instrument |
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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