The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Quères Diana, sentence 8
One day there came a snow that covered the ground so that one could easily track rabbits, and taking her bow and arrows she started off to hunt.
Who acts: snow, one, Governor · What happens: come, cover, track, take, start off, hunt · To what, where: snow, ground, rabbits, bow
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 (snow, one, Governor), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snow | det |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 covered | nsubj |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | obj |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 16 track | mark |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 track | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 track | aux |
| 15 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 16 track | advmod |
| 16 | track | track | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 covered | advcl |
| 17 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 track | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taking | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taking | cc |
| 20 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bow | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taking | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 arrows | cc |
| 24 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bow | conj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 started | nsubj |
| 26 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taking | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 started | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 hunt | mark |
| 29 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 started | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a snow | there | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snow=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | past | a snow | the ground | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination | ||||
| 3 | track | could | that one | rabbits | easily property | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | gerund | Governor's bow and arrows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||||
| 5 | start off | past | Governor | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | hunt | to-infinitive | Governor not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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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