The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 100
[79] At the same moment the ladder[80] was jerked violently up out of the room, so that no one could get out.
Who acts: one · What happens: jerk up, get out · To what, where: ladder, room
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 79 | punct |
| 2 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 jerked | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 79 | punct |
| 4 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moment | amod |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 79 | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladder | det |
| 9 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jerked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 80 | punct |
| 11 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 ladder | appos |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 80 | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 jerked | aux:pass |
| 14 | jerked | jerk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 16 up | advmod |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 jerked | compound:prt |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jerked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 get | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 get | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 get | aux |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 jerked | parataxis |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 get | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 jerked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jerk up | past · passive | the ladder | the room | 79 at the same moment obl | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | get out | could | no one | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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