The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 86

There was a pond close by, with many ducks on it; and making herself very little, she went and hid under the left wing of the duck with a blue head.

Who acts: pond, woman · What happens: be, make, go, hide · To what, where: woman, left wing

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 (pond, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pond	det
4	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pond	amod
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 close	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ducks	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 ducks	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ducks	amod
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pond	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ducks	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
15	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 making	obj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 little	advmod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 making	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 making	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hid	cc
23	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
24	under	under	ADP	_	27 wing	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wing	det
26	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wing	amod
27	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hid	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 duck	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 duck	det
30	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wing	nmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 head	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 head	det
33	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 head	amod
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 duck	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a pond and many ducks on táh		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	gerund	woman not said here	woman		little property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product
3	go	past	woman				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hide	past	woman not said here		the left wing of the duck with a blue head		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wing=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 86

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 86