The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 24

The girl began to cry bitterly when she saw that great savage eye at the door, which was so small that the giantess could not get her huge hand in.

Who acts: girl, door, giantess · What happens: begin, cry, see, be, not get in · To what, where: savage eye, door, huge hand

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, door, 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 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cry	mark
5	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	5 cry	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cry	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 eye	mark
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 savage	amod
12	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eye	compound
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eye	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 small	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 small	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 small	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 small	advmod
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 door	amod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 get	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 giantess	det
24	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 get	advmod
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 small	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
29	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hand	amod
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	27 get	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the girl				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the girl not said here			bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	girl	savage eye	the door		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
4	is	past	the door			small property	tree rules
5	not get in	could	the giantess	girl's huge hand			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 24