The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 17
Presently a cat came sneaking into the room and whispered to the witch-wife:
Who acts: cat · What happens: come, sneak, whisper · To what, where: room, witch wife
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sneaking | sneak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sneaking | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 whispered | cc |
| 10 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wife | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 witch | punct |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a cat | presently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sneak | gerund | a cat not said here | the room | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | a cat not said here | the witch wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
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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