The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 65
Leaving the boys to crawl out, the old woman ran to the house and scolded the old man terribly for not having made the oven hot enough.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: leave, crawl out, run, scold, make · To what, where: boys, old man, oven
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 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 crawl | mark |
| 5 | crawl | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leaving | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 crawl | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leaving | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scolded | cc |
| 16 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scolded | obj |
| 20 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 16 scolded | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 made | mark |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 having | advmod |
| 23 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 made | aux |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 scolded | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 oven | det |
| 26 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 oven | amod |
| 28 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 27 hot | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the old woman not said here | the boys | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crawl out | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | the old woman | to the house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 4 | scold | past | the old woman not said here | the old man | terribly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | gerund · perfect | the old woman not said here | the oven | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oven=Product |
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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