The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 22
Then the giantess called for her _manta_ (dress), and her shawl and her buckskin leggings, and ate them all, and at last said:
What happens: call, eat, say · To what, where: giantess, leggings, last · 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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 giantess | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giantess | det |
| 3 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 giantess | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 manta | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 manta | nmod:poss |
| 7 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 manta | amod |
| 8 | manta | manta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 dress | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 dress | punct |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giantess | conj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 dress | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shawl | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shawl | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shawl | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giantess | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leggings | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leggings | nmod:poss |
| 19 | buckskin | buckskin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leggings | amod |
| 20 | leggings | legging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shawl | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ate | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ate | cc |
| 23 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shawl | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ate | obj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 ate | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 last | case |
| 29 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | obl |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ate | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 giantess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the giantess and dress and giantess's shawl and giantess's buckskin leggings not said here | for giantess's _ manta | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for manta=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | leggings = legging | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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