The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 10

Opening a door she came into a very large room toward the east; and there were a lot of women crying and shivering with cold, for they had nothing to wear.

Who acts: Opening door, lot, women, rooms · What happens: open, come, be, cry, shiver, have · To what, where: large room, nothing

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Opening door, lot, women, rooms), 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	Opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 door	amod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 room	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 room	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 large	advmod
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	13 east	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 east	det
13	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 were	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 were	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 had	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lot	det
19	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 were	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 women	case
21	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lot	nmod
22	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 women	acl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shivering	cc
24	shivering	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 crying	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 cold	case
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shivering	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 had	case
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 had	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 wear	mark
33	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 nothing	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a Opening door		a large room toward the east	door nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
3	be	past	a lot of women		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	women not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shiver	gerund	women not said here			with cold	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	have	past	rooms = room	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
7	wear	to-infinitive	rooms = room not said here	nothing not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 10