The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 67
They both grabbed it at the same instant, and lo! instead of the pretty, but evil-minded sisters of Poo-reh-tú-ai, there lay two huge rattlesnakes, with big tears falling from their eyes.
Who acts: sisters, big tears · What happens: grab, lay, fall · To what, where: hoop, same instant, two huge rattlesnakes, eyes
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 (sisters, big tears), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grabbed | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 grabbed | advmod |
| 3 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grabbed | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 instant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 instant | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 instant | amod |
| 8 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grabbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pretty | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pretty | cc |
| 11 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 16 pretty | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 lo | punct |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 16 pretty | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pretty | det |
| 16 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grabbed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sisters | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 sisters | cc |
| 19 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 minded | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 evil | punct |
| 21 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sisters | amod |
| 22 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grabbed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ai | case |
| 24 | Poo | Poo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ai | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Poo | punct |
| 26 | reh | reh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Poo | appos |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 reh | punct |
| 28 | tú | tú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ai | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 tú | punct |
| 30 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sisters | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lay | punct |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 lay | expl |
| 33 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grabbed | parataxis |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 rattlesnakes | nummod |
| 35 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rattlesnakes | amod |
| 36 | rattlesnakes | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lay | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tears | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 tears | case |
| 39 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tears | amod |
| 40 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rattlesnakes | nmod |
| 41 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 tears | acl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 eyes | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 44 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 falling | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grabbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | sisters = sister | hoop | the same instant | minded sisters of tú ai Poo obl; both property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | lay | present | two huge rattlesnakes | there | with big tears | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rattlesnake=Result | |||
| 3 | fall | gerund | big tears not said here | sisters's eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location |
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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