The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 22
And at last, thinking her husband asleep, the witch-wife rose noiselessly and went out.
Who acts: witch wife · What happens: think, rise, go out · To what, where: husband, last
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 (witch wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thinking | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thinking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rose | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | obj |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 husband | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wife | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 witch | punct |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | noiselessly | noiselessly | ADV | _ | 14 rose | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rose | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the witch wife not said here | bade's husband | last | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot husband=Theme | |||
| 2 | rise | past | the witch wife | noiselessly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | the witch wife not said here | vn interact-36.6 «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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