The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 31
The witch-sisters came laughing and taunting him, and said:
Who acts: witch sisters · What happens: come, laugh, taunt, say · To what, where: Man · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taunting | cc |
| 8 | taunting | taunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 laughing | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taunting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the witch sisters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the witch sisters not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | taunt | gerund | the witch sisters not said here | Man | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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