The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 35
But when the chief witch pricked the hearts with a sharp stick they swelled themselves out like a frog.
Who acts: chief witch, witch · What happens: prick, swell out · To what, where: hearts, witch
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 (chief witch, witch), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 swelled | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 pricked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witch | amod |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pricked | nsubj |
| 6 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swelled | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hearts | det |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pricked | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stick | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stick | det |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stick | amod |
| 12 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pricked | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swelled | nsubj |
| 14 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 swelled | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 swelled | compound:prt |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 frog | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 frog | det |
| 19 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swelled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | past | the chief witch | the hearts | with a sharp stick | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with stick=Instrument | |||
| 2 | swell out | past | witch | witch | like a frog | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient themselves=Extent |
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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