The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 69
The witch-woman was very angry then; and giving the boys their bows and arrows, told them to go and play.
Who acts: witch woman · What happens: be, give, tell, go, play · To what, where: boys · 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 (witch 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 witch | punct |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 angry | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 angry | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 told | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 giving | obj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bows | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boys | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrows | cc |
| 17 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bows | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 giving | punct |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 told | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 play | cc |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 go | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the witch woman | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | the boys | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | boys = boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | play | infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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