The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 56
In the evening the old witch-woman raked out the coals, and calling the boys seized them and forced them into the fiery oven.
Who acts: old witch woman, calling · What happens: rake out, call, seize, force · To what, where: coals, boys, fiery oven · 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 (old witch woman, calling), 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 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raked | nsubj |
| 9 | raked | rake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 raked | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coals | det |
| 12 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 raked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seized | cc |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 seized | csubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boys | det |
| 17 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 calling | obj |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 raked | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 forced | cc |
| 21 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seized | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 forced | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 oven | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 oven | det |
| 25 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 oven | amod |
| 26 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forced | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 raked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rake out | participle | the old witch woman | the coals | evening | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent coal=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | call | gerund | the boys | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | calling | boys = boy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | force | past | calling not said here | boys = boy | the fiery oven | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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