The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 17
After long coquetting in vain, the girls began to hate him as hard as before they had loved him.
Who acts: girls · What happens: coquet, begin, hate, love · To what, where: vain, Poo
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 (girls), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 coquetting | mark |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 coquetting | amod |
| 3 | coquetting | coquet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 began | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 coquetting | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 coquetting | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girls | det |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hate | mark |
| 11 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hate | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 hard | advmod |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 hate | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 loved | mark |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 loved | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 loved | aux |
| 19 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 hate | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coquet | gerund | the girls not said here | vain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the girls | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hate | to-infinitive | the girls not said here | Poo | hard property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | love | past · perfect | girls = girl | Poo | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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