The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 74
The people of Poo-reh-tú-ai soon learned of the fate of the witch-sisters, and knew that those two great snakes, with tears in their eyes, were they.
Who acts: people · What happens: learn, know, be, fate · To what, where: witch 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 (people), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ai | case |
| 4 | Poo | Poo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ai | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Poo | punct |
| 6 | reh | reh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Poo | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 reh | punct |
| 8 | tú | tú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ai | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tú | punct |
| 10 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 learned | advmod |
| 12 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fate | det |
| 15 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 learned | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sisters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sisters | det |
| 18 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sisters | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 witch | punct |
| 20 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fate | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knew | cc |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 learned | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 snakes | mark |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 snakes | det |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 snakes | nummod |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 snakes | amod |
| 28 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 knew | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tears | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 tears | case |
| 31 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 snakes | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 eyes | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 tears | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 were | punct |
| 36 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 learned | conj |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 were | nsubj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the people of tú ai Poo | of the fate of the witch sisters; soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of fate=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the people of tú ai Poo not said here | that two great snakes and tears in snakes's eyes ccomp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be | past | people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fate | the witch sisters | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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