The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 59
In a day or two the witch-sisters came to Isleta, bringing on their heads baskets of the choicest foods and other gifts, which they presented to him in the most cordial manner.
Who acts: witch sisters, heads baskets · What happens: come, bring, present · To what, where: Isleta, heads baskets, cordial manner
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, heads baskets), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 two | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sisters | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sisters | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 witch | punct |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Isleta | case |
| 12 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bringing | punct |
| 14 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 baskets | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 baskets | compound |
| 18 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bringing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 foods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 foods | det |
| 21 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 foods | amod |
| 22 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 baskets | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gifts | cc |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gifts | amod |
| 25 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 baskets | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 presented | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 presented | nsubj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 presented | nsubj |
| 29 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 baskets | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 presented | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 manner | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 manner | det |
| 34 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 35 cordial | advmod |
| 35 | cordial | cordial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 manner | amod |
| 36 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 presented | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the witch sisters | Isleta | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to isleta=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bring | gerund | the witch sisters not said here | heads baskets of the choicest foods and other gifts | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on basket=Destination | ||||
| 3 | present | past | heads baskets of the choicest foods and other gifts | Isleta | the cordial manner | sisters = sister nsubj | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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