The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 57
She went to her store-room and brought out a pine-cone, which she dropped over the great cliff.
Who acts: squirrel, pine cone · What happens: go, bring out, drop · To what, where: store room, pine cone, great cliff
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 (squirrel, pine cone), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 5 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 store | punct |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 brought | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cone | det |
| 12 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cone | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pine | punct |
| 14 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dropped | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dropped | nsubj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dropped | nsubj |
| 18 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cone | acl:relcl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 cliff | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cliff | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cliff | amod |
| 22 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dropped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | squirrel | squirrel's store room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bring out | past | squirrel not said here | a pine cone | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | a pine cone | the great cliff | squirrel nsubj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over cliff=Trajectory |
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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