The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 61
Then the old woman put a flat rock over the little door of the oven, and another over the smoke-hole, and sealed them both tight with clay.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: put, seal · To what, where: flat rock, little door, 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 (old 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rock | amod |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 door | amod |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 oven | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oven | det |
| 15 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 another | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 another | cc |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 put | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 21 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hole | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 smoke | punct |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sealed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sealed | cc |
| 26 | sealed | seal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sealed | obj |
| 28 | both | both | ADV | _ | 29 tight | advmod |
| 29 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 26 sealed | advmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 clay | case |
| 31 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sealed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the old woman | a flat rock | the little door of the oven | then | over the smoke hole | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rock=Theme over door=Destination | |
| 2 | seal | past | the old woman not said here | woods = wood | with clay; tight property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with clay=Instrument |
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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