The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 42
He was very much frightened, and to hide himself climbed up into the chimney and stood upon its crosspiece.
Who acts: devil · What happens: frighten, hide, climb up, stand · To what, where: devil, chimney, crosspiece
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil), 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 | 5 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hide | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hide | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hide | mark |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightened | parataxis |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 climbed | nsubj |
| 11 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hide | ccomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 climbed | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 chimney | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chimney | det |
| 15 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 climbed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 climbed | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 crosspiece | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 crosspiece | nmod:poss |
| 20 | crosspiece | crosspiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | devil | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | climb up | past | devil | the chimney | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chimney=Destination | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | devil not said here | chimney's crosspiece | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon crosspiece=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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