The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 15
In two steps she was at the rock-house, and, stooping down, she called at the door: “Quáh-tzee?
Who acts: giantess, rock house · What happens: be, stoop down, call · To what, where: rock house, Quáh tzee · Speech: someone speaks here
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, rock house), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 steps | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 steps | nummod |
| 3 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 house | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 house | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 house | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 rock | punct |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooping | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stooping | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooping | punct |
| 14 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 stooping | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 house | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 tzee | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 tzee | punct |
| 24 | Quáh | Quáh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tzee | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Quáh | punct |
| 26 | tzee | tzee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | giantess | the rock house | in two steps | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stoop down | gerund | the rock house not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | past | giantess | Quáh tzee | at the door | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at door=Stimulus |
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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