The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 109
Then they took away the two wicked old hearts, and put in place of each a kernel of spotless corn; so that if the witches should ever come to life again they would no longer be witches, but people with pure, good hearts.
Who acts: boys, witches · What happens: take away, put, come, be · To what, where: two wicked old hearts, place, life, witches
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, witches), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hearts | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hearts | nummod |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hearts | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hearts | amod |
| 9 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 kernel | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 kernel | det |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 kernel | det |
| 18 | kernel | kernel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 corn | case |
| 20 | spotless | spotless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 corn | amod |
| 21 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kernel | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 come | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 come | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 witches | det |
| 27 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 come | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 come | advmod |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 witches | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 witches | aux |
| 36 | no | no | ADV | _ | 37 longer | advmod |
| 37 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 witches | advmod |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 witches | cop |
| 39 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 come | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 people | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 people | cc |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 witches | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 hearts | case |
| 44 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 hearts | amod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 pure | punct |
| 46 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 hearts | amod |
| 47 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 people | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | boys = boy | the two wicked old hearts | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | participle | boys = boy not said here | place of each kernel of spotless corn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come | should | the witches | life | ever; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is a | would | boys = boy | witches but people with pure good hearts | people with pure good hearts conj; long 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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