The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 85
So the boys came out and “made blind” (covered their eyes) while the old woman went to hide.
Who acts: boys, old woman · What happens: come out, make, cover, go, hide · To what, where: eyes
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 covered | punct |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 made | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 covered | obj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 covered | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 covered | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hide | mark |
| 22 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the boys | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | participle | the boys not said here | blind property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | the boys not said here | boys's eyes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hide | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «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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