The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 27
They crept up and shot the giantess through the neck with their strong arrows and killed her, and, bringing new clothes for the girl, took her home safely to Kó-iks (the native name for Laguna), where she lived for many years.
Who acts: hunters, girl · What happens: creep up, shoot, kill, bring, take, live · To what, where: giantess, neck, new clothes, girl, Kó iks
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 (hunters, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 crept | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shot | cc |
| 5 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giantess | det |
| 7 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 neck | det |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 arrows | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 arrows | amod |
| 14 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shot | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 killed | cc |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bringing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bringing | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bringing | punct |
| 21 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 crept | advcl |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 clothes | amod |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 bringing | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 girl | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bringing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | parataxis |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | obj |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 took | advmod |
| 31 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 28 took | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 iks | case |
| 33 | Kó | Kó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 iks | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Kó | punct |
| 35 | iks | ik | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 took | obl |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 name | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 name | det |
| 38 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 name | amod |
| 39 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 iks | appos |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 Laguna | case |
| 41 | Laguna | Laguna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 name | nmod |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 name | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 lived | punct |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 lived | advmod |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 lived | nsubj |
| 46 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 name | conj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 years | case |
| 48 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 years | amod |
| 49 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 lived | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep up | past | hunters = hunter | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shoot | past | hunters = hunter not said here | the giantess | the neck | with hunters's strong arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent giantess=Theme through neck=Destination | ||
| 3 | kill | past | hunters = hunter not said here | giantess | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | gerund | hunters = hunter not said here | new clothes | for the girl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 5 | take | past | girl | Kó iks | home, safely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to ik=Destination | |||
| 6 | live | past | girl | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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