The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 76
The boys were to hide first; and when the old woman had turned her eyes and vowed not to look, they went to the door and hid, one against each of its jambs.
Who acts: boys, old woman · What happens: hide, turn, vow, not look, go · To what, where: eyes, door, one, each
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 (boys, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hide | mark |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 hide | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 turned | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turned | aux |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hide | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turned | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 vowed | cc |
| 18 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turned | conj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 look | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 look | mark |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 vowed | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 door | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hid | cc |
| 29 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 one | punct |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hid | obj |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 each | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 one | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 jambs | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 jambs | nmod:poss |
| 36 | jambs | jamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 each | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the boys | first property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · perfect | the old woman | woman's eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vow | past | the old woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not look | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go | past | boys = boy | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | hide | past | boys = boy not said here | one | each of door's jambs | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Patient against each=Location |
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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