The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 23
The witch-sisters made a very gay hoop, and then sent word to the youth to meet them at the sacred sand-hill, just west of Isleta, as they had important business with him.
Who acts: witch sisters, sisters · What happens: make, send, meet, have · To what, where: gay hoop, word, youth, sisters, sacred sand hill, important business
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 (witch 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sisters | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sisters | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 witch | punct |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hoop | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 gay | advmod |
| 8 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hoop | amod |
| 9 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sent | advmod |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 youth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 meet | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 hill | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hill | det |
| 23 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hill | amod |
| 24 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hill | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 sand | punct |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meet | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 west | punct |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 west | advmod |
| 29 | west | west | ADV | _ | 19 meet | advmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Isleta | case |
| 31 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 west | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 had | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 36 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 business | amod |
| 37 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the witch sisters | a gay hoop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Product | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the witch sisters not said here | word | the youth | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to youth=Destination | ||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the witch sisters not said here | sisters = sister | the sacred sand hill | west property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | have | past | sisters = sister | important business | with Isleta | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |
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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