The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 28
But when she saw the Burro lying there, she dropped her _tinaja_, and ran in crying:
Who acts: Woman, Burro · What happens: see, lie, drop, run, cry · To what, where: Burro, tinaja
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 (Woman, Burro), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 dropped | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dropped | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Burro | det |
| 6 | Burro | Burro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lying | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dropped | nsubj |
| 11 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tinaja | nmod:poss |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 tinaja | punct |
| 14 | tinaja | tinaja | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dropped | obj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 dropped | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dropped | conj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 crying | mark |
| 20 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ran | advcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Woman | the Burro | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the Burro not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | Woman | Woman's tinaja | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tinaja=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Woman not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | Woman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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