The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 12

There lived an old giantess, the terror of all the world, and when she caught a whiff of that sweet meat she started up and rubbed her big red eye.

Who acts: giantess · What happens: live, catch, start up, rub, whiff · To what, where: old giantess, whiff, big red eye, sweet meat

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 (giantess), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lived	expl
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 giantess	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giantess	amod
5	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 terror	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 terror	det
8	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giantess	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 world	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 world	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 terror	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 started	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 started	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 caught	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 caught	nsubj
17	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 started	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 whiff	det
19	whiff	whiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 meat	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 meat	det
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 meat	amod
23	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whiff	nmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 started	nsubj
25	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 started	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rubbed	cc
28	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eye	nmod:poss
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 eye	amod
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 eye	amod
32	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rubbed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	past		a old giantess	there	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme giantess=Location
2	catch	past	giantess	a whiff of that sweet meat		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whiff=Theme
3	start up	past	giantess			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	rub	past		giantess's big red eye		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
5	whiff			that sweet meat		nom whiff «phenomenon transitive»: of=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 12

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 12