The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 97
Then the witch made herself very small indeed, and went behind the foot of a big crane that was standing on one leg near the lake.
Who acts: witch, big crane · What happens: make, go, stand · To what, where: last, foot, one leg
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, big crane), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 foot | det |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 crane | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crane | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crane | amod |
| 18 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 foot | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 standing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 standing | aux |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 crane | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 leg | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 leg | nummod |
| 24 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | obl |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 lake | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lake | det |
| 27 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leg | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the witch | last | then | indeed, small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product | ||
| 2 | go | past | the witch not said here | the foot of a big crane | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind foot=Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | a big crane | one leg near the lake | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=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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