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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sat | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returning | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returning | punct |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 sat | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wept | cc |
| 17 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sat | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 guarded | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 escape | det |
| 23 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hag | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 hag | case |
| 26 | Mast | Mast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Truan | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Mast | punct |
| 28 | Truan | Truan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 hag | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Truan | case |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hag | amod |
| 31 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 guarded | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 mother | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 mother | det |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hag | nmod |
| 35 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 36 guarded | advmod |
| 36 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 door | det |
| 38 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 door | amod |
| 39 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 guarded | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the girl | girl's fate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | to girl's room result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | |||||
| 3 | sit down | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | weep | past | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | be | past | no escape | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | guard | past | Mast Truan's old hag of a mother | the outer door | forever property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | fate | girl | nom 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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