The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 66
“One, two, three!” he counted; and at the word “three!” sent the hoop rolling down to them.
Who acts: Man, word, hoop · What happens: count, send, roll down · To what, where: One, hoop, sisters
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, word, hoop), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 counted | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 two | punct |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 One | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 three | punct |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 One | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 counted | nsubj |
| 10 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 word | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 word | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 three | punct |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 word | appos |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 word | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 word | punct |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 counted | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hoop | det |
| 22 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obj |
| 23 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 hoop | acl |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 rolling | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rolling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | Man | One | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the word | the hoop | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll down | gerund | the hoop not said here | sisters = sister | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination |
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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