The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 65
He had made a very beautiful hoop, and when they saw it they were charmed, and took their positions at the foot of the declivity.
Who acts: Man, sisters · What happens: make, see, charm, take · To what, where: beautiful hoop, hoop, sisters, positions, foot · 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 (Man, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hoop | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hoop | amod |
| 7 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 charmed | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 charmed | aux:pass |
| 16 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 positions | nmod:poss |
| 21 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 foot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foot | det |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 declivity | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 declivity | det |
| 27 | declivity | declivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 foot | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | Man | a beautiful hoop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Product | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sisters = sister | hoop | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | charm | past · passive | sisters = sister | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | take | past | sisters = sister not said here | sisters's positions | the foot of the declivity | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent position=Theme at foot=Asset |
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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