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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 13

The girl saw her fate, and, returning to her room, sat down and wept--but there was no escape, for Mast-Truan’s old hag of a mother forever guarded the outer door.

Who acts: girl, escape, old hag · What happens: see, return, sit down, weep, be, guard · To what, where: fate, outer door

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 (girl, escape, old hag), 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

detnsubjnmod:possobjpunctccpunctadvclcasenmod:possoblpunctparataxiscompound:prtccconjpunctccexplparataxisdetnsubjpunctcasecompoundpunctnmod:posscaseamodnsubjcasedetnmodadvmodparataxisdetamodobjpunctrootTheDETgirlNOUNsawVERBherPRONfateNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTreturningVERBtoADPherPRONroomNOUN,PUNCTsatVERBdownADPandCCONJweptVERB--PUNCTbutCCONJtherePRONwasVERBnoDETescapeNOUN,PUNCTforADPMastPROPN-PUNCTTruanPROPN’sPARToldADJhagNOUNofADPaDETmotherNOUNforeverADVguardedVERBtheDETouterADJdoorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 girldet
2girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 fatenmod:poss
5fatefateNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobj
6,,PUNCT_14 satpunct
7andandCCONJ_14 satcc
8,,PUNCT_7 andpunct
9returningreturnVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 satadvcl
10totoADP_12 roomcase
11herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 roomnmod:poss
12roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing9 returningobl
13,,PUNCT_9 returningpunct
14satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawparataxis
15downdownADP_14 satcompound:prt
16andandCCONJ_17 weptcc
17weptweepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 satconj
18----PUNCT_21 waspunct
19butbutCCONJ_21 wascc
20theretherePRONPronType=Dem21 wasexpl
21wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 guardedparataxis
22nonoDETPronType=Neg23 escapedet
23escapeescapeNOUNNumber=Sing21 wasnsubj
24,,PUNCT_31 hagpunct
25forforADP_31 hagcase
26MastMastPROPNNumber=Sing28 Truancompound
27--PUNCT_26 Mastpunct
28TruanTruanPROPNNumber=Sing31 hagnmod:poss
29’s'sPART_28 Truancase
30oldoldADJDegree=Pos31 hagamod
31haghagNOUNNumber=Sing36 guardednsubj
32ofofADP_34 mothercase
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 motherdet
34mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing31 hagnmod
35foreverforeverADV_36 guardedadvmod
36guardedguardVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawparataxis
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 doordet
38outerouterADJDegree=Pos39 dooramod
39doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing36 guardedobj
40..PUNCT_3 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe girlgirl's fatevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus
2returngerundto girl's room resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result
3sit downpastvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4weeppastvn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5bepastno escapetherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6guardpastMast Truan's old hag of a motherthe outer doorforever propertyvn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary
7fategirlnom fate «event 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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