The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 50
At last they came to an old, battered house; and setting the basket down, she said:
Who acts: rabbits, woman · What happens: come, batter, set down, say · To what, where: old battered house, basket · 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, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 13 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 basket | det |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 setting | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 setting | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 setting | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | rabbits = rabbit | a old battered house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | batter | participle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | set down | gerund | woman not said here | the basket | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient basket=Result | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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