The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 26
But just as she had broken off the roof and stooped to pick out the girl, two hunters chanced to pass and hear the noise.
Who acts: girl · What happens: break off, stoop, pick out, chance, pass, hear · To what, where: roof, girl, two hunters, noise
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 broken | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 broken | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 broken | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 broken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | aux |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broken | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stooped | cc |
| 11 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pick | mark |
| 13 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stooped | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pick | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pick | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hunters | punct |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hunters | nummod |
| 19 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 girl | appos |
| 20 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hunters | acl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pass | mark |
| 22 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 chanced | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hear | cc |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pass | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 noise | det |
| 26 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hear | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past · perfect | girl | the roof | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roof=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stoop | past | girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pick out | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the girl | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 4 | chance | participle | two hunters not said here | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | hear | infinitive | the noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=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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