The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 29
So he went down the hill and waited, and the girls sent the bright wheel rolling toward him.
Who acts: Man, girls · What happens: go down, wait, send, roll · To what, where: hill, bright wheel
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 (Man, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 hill | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hill | det |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waited | cc |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girls | det |
| 12 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wheel | det |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wheel | amod |
| 16 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 17 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sent | advcl |
| 18 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rolling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Man | the hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | Man not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | past | the girls | the bright wheel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | the girls not said here | toward Man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward he=Trajectory |
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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