The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 25
She repeated her commands thrice, and when the girl still refused to come out, picked up a great boulder and began to hammer the rock-house to pieces.
Who acts: giantess, girl · What happens: repeat, refuse, not come out, pick up, begin, hammer · To what, where: commands, great boulder, rock house · 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, girl), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 repeated | nsubj |
| 2 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 commands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 repeated | obj |
| 5 | thrice | thrice | ADV | _ | 2 repeated | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 refused | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 refused | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 refused | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refused | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 refused | advmod |
| 12 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 repeated | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 refused | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 picked | punct |
| 17 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 refused | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 picked | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 boulder | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boulder | amod |
| 21 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 picked | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 repeated | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hammer | mark |
| 25 | hammer | hammer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 27 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 house | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 rock | punct |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hammer | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 pieces | case |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hammer | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | giantess | giantess's commands | thrice property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | the girl | still | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not come out | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pick up | participle | the girl not said here | a great boulder | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boulder=Topic | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | giantess not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | hammer | to-infinitive | giantess not said here | the rock house | to pieces result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent house=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 7 | command | giantess | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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