The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 27
Time passing so, the Old-Woman-Coyote came out of the house to bring a jar of water.
Who acts: Time, Old Woman · What happens: pass, come out, bring · To what, where: house, jar
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time, 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Time | acl |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 passing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Time | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Woman | det |
| 6 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Woman | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Old | punct |
| 8 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Coyote | punct |
| 10 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Woman | appos |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 jar | det |
| 19 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jar | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | Time not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come out | past | the Old Woman | the house | time | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result | |||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | the Old Woman not said here | a jar of water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jar=Theme |
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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