The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 95
The old woman had to sing her song over a great many times, as she went hunting all around; but at last she called:
Who acts: old woman, woman, last · What happens: have, sing, go, hunt, call · To what, where: song · 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 (old woman, woman, last), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sing | mark |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 song | nmod:poss |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 times | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sing | conj |
| 18 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 went | xcomp |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 around | advmod |
| 20 | around | around | ADV | _ | 18 hunting | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 called | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 called | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 called | nsubj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 last | nsubj |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | woman's song | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | woman | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | woman not said here | around property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | call | past | last woman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sing | woman | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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