The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 77
That afternoon the mother of the witch-wife went to visit her daughter, but when she came near the house she stopped in terror, for far up through the roof grew a great pine-tree, whose furry arms came out at doors and windows.
Who acts: mother, wife, roof, furry arms · What happens: go, visit, come, stop, grow, come out · To what, where: daughter, house, terror, great pine tree, doors
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 (mother, wife, roof, furry arms), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 afternoon | det |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 witch | punct |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | nmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 visit | mark |
| 12 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopped | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 stopped | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stopped | advcl |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stopped | nsubj |
| 24 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 terror | case |
| 26 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stopped | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grew | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 up | case |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 up | advmod |
| 30 | up | up | ADV | _ | 34 grew | obl |
| 31 | through | through | ADP | _ | 33 roof | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 roof | det |
| 33 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grew | nsubj |
| 34 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stopped | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 tree | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tree | amod |
| 37 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tree | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 pine | punct |
| 39 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grew | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 came | punct |
| 41 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 43 arms | nmod:poss |
| 42 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 arms | amod |
| 43 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 came | nsubj |
| 44 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 tree | conj |
| 45 | out | out | ADV | _ | 44 came | advmod |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 doors | case |
| 47 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 came | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 windows | cc |
| 49 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 doors | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the mother of the witch wife | afternoon | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | the mother of the witch wife not said here | wife's daughter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | wife | the house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near house=Location | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | wife | terror | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | the roof | a great pine tree | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tree=Product for up=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | come out | past | furry arms | doors and windows | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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