The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 20
The girl threw one out at the door, and the giantess swallowed it at a gulp and demanded more.
Who acts: girl, giantess · What happens: throw out, swallow, demand · To what, where: one, door, gulp, more
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 (girl, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 threw | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swallowed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swallowed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giantess | det |
| 12 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swallowed | nsubj |
| 13 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swallowed | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 gulp | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gulp | det |
| 17 | gulp | gulp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swallowed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 demanded | cc |
| 19 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 demanded | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw out | past | the girl | one | the door | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme at door=Destination | |||
| 2 | swallow | past | the giantess | door | a gulp | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | the girl not said here | more | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Precondition |
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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