The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 19
“Then give me one,” shouted the old giantess.
Who acts: old giantess · What happens: give, shout · To what, where: one, old giantess · 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 (old 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shouted | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 8 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giantess | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 giantess | amod |
| 11 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shouted | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | one | the old giantess = giantess | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | the old giantess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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