The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 42
In a moment they saw an old woman coming from the south, who said to the boys:
Who acts: rabbits, old woman, south · What happens: see, come, say · To what, where: old woman, south, boys · 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 (rabbits, old woman, south), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 woman | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 south | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 south | det |
| 12 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 south | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 boys | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boys | det |
| 18 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | rabbits = rabbit | a old woman | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | a old woman not said here | the south | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from south=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the south | the boys | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient |
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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