The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 24
The witch-wife walked a long way till she came to the foot of the Black Mesa, where was a great dark hole with a rainbow in its mouth.
Who acts: witch wife, wife · What happens: walk, come, be · To what, where: long way, foot, great dark hole
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 witch | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 foot | det |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mesa | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mesa | det |
| 17 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mesa | compound |
| 18 | Mesa | Mesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 foot | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hole | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 hole | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hole | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hole | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hole | amod |
| 24 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hole | amod |
| 25 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Mesa | appos |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 rainbow | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rainbow | det |
| 28 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hole | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 mouth | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rainbow | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the witch wife | a long way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | wife | the foot of the Black Mesa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a great dark hole | with a rainbow in rainbow's mouth | tree rules |
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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