The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 28
She opened the doors to all the rooms where the poor women were prisoners, and bade them all get into the basket one by one.
Who acts: woman, poor women, prisoners · What happens: open, be, get · To what, where: doors, rooms, prisoners, bade, basket
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 (woman, poor women, prisoners), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doors | det |
| 4 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 rooms | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 rooms | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rooms | det |
| 8 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 opened | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 prisoners | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 women | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 women | amod |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 prisoners | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prisoners | cop |
| 14 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rooms | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bade | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bade | cc |
| 17 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 get | advmod |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bade | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 basket | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 basket | det |
| 23 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 basket | flat |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | woman | the doors | all rooms | bade parataxis | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to room=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the poor women | prisoners | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | present | prisoners = prisoner | bade not said here | the basket | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bade=Stimulus |
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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