The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 19
Just then a queer little old woman appeared before her, with a kindly smile.
Who acts: queer little old woman · What happens: appear
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 (queer little old woman), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 8 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 4 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | nsubj |
| 8 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 appeared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smile | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 smile | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smile | det |
| 14 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 15 smile | advmod |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a queer little old woman | before door; then | with a smile | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
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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