The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 78
That was the end of the witch-wife, for the magic seed had sprouted in her stomach, and she was turned into a great, sad Pine that swayed above her home, and moaned and sobbed forever, as all her Pine-children do to this day.
Who acts: That, great sad Pine, children · What happens: be, sprout, turn, sway, moan, sob · To what, where: end, magic seed, stomach, wife, great sad Pine, home
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 (That, great sad Pine, children), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 end | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 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 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sprouted | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 sprouted | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seed | det |
| 13 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seed | compound |
| 14 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sprouted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sprouted | aux |
| 16 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 end | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 stomach | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sprouted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 turned | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 turned | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 turned | aux:pass |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sprouted | advcl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 Pine | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Pine | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Pine | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 great | punct |
| 29 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Pine | amod |
| 30 | Pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 swayed | nsubj |
| 32 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 Pine | acl:relcl |
| 33 | above | above | ADP | _ | 35 home | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 home | nmod:poss |
| 35 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 swayed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 moaned | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 moaned | cc |
| 38 | moaned | moan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 turned | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sobbed | cc |
| 40 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 moaned | conj |
| 41 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 40 sobbed | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Pine | punct |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 Pine | case |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 Pine | det:predet |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 Pine | nmod:poss |
| 46 | Pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sobbed | obl |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 do | punct |
| 48 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 do | nsubj |
| 49 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sprouted | conj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 day | case |
| 51 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 day | det |
| 52 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 do | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the end | of the witch wife | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sprout | past · perfect · passive | the magic seed | wife's stomach | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | wife | a great sad Pine | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into pine=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sway | past | a great sad Pine | wife's home | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above home=Location | ||||
| 5 | moan | participle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | sob | participle | as wife's Pine; forever property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | do | present | children | day | vn act-114-1 «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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