The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 10

The evening was very cold, and she was hungry; so, going into the rock-house, she built a fire on the hearth and began to roast a rabbit.

Who acts: evening, Governor · What happens: be, go, build, begin, roast · To what, where: rock house, fire, hearth, rabbit

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Quères Diana. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, Governor), 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	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hungry	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hungry	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hungry	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hungry	cop
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cold	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cold	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	19 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 rock	punct
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 built	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 built	nsubj
22	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 built	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 hearth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hearth	det
27	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 built	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 built	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 roast	mark
31	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rabbit	det
33	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roast	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the evening			cold property	tree rules
2	is	past	Governor			hungry property	tree rules
3	go	gerund			the rock house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
4	build	past	Governor	a fire	the hearth		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme on hearth=Source
5	begin	past	Governor not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	roast	to-infinitive	Governor not said here	a rabbit			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rabbit=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 10