The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 49
She had a big basket upon her back, and stooping for the boys to get into it, she carried them farther and farther into the woods.
Who acts: woman · What happens: have, stoop, get, carry · To what, where: big basket, back, rabbits, woods
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 basket | amod |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 basket | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stooping | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stooping | cc |
| 11 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 boys | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boys | det |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stooping | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stooping | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carried | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carried | nsubj |
| 21 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carried | obj |
| 23 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 carried | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 farther | cc |
| 25 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 farther | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 woods | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 woods | det |
| 28 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 carried | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | woman | a big basket | upon woman's back | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | |||
| 2 | stoop | gerund | woman not said here | for the boys | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | woman not said here | back | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | woman | rabbits = rabbit | the woods | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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