The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 13
There were two sisters, very pretty girls, living in Poo-reh-tú-ai, and they fell very seriously in love, both with this same youth.
Who acts: two sisters, sisters · What happens: be, live, fall · To what, where: Poo, love
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sisters, sisters), 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 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sisters | nummod |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 girls | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girls | amod |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sisters | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 living | punct |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 were | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Poo | case |
| 12 | Poo | Poo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 living | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Poo | punct |
| 14 | reh | reh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Poo | appos |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tú | punct |
| 16 | tú | tú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reh | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ai | punct |
| 18 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tú | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 seriously | advmod |
| 24 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 both | punct |
| 28 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 love | nmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 youth | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 youth | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 youth | amod |
| 32 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 both | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two sisters and pretty girls | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | two sisters and pretty girls not said here | Poo | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poo=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | sisters = sister | love both with this same youth | seriously property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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