The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 104
Their grandmother was going for water; and from the top of the cliff she saw them running so in the valley, and the Bear jumping behind them.
Who acts: grandmother, Twins, Bear · What happens: go, see, run, jump · To what, where: Twins, top, valley
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Twins, Bear), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cliff | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cliff | det |
| 14 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 running | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 valley | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 valley | det |
| 22 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 running | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 jumping | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 jumping | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Bear | det |
| 26 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jumping | nsubj |
| 27 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 saw | advcl |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 jumping | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | Twins's grandmother | for water | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for water=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | see | past | grandmother | Twins = twin | the top of the cliff | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | Twins = twin not said here | the valley | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | jump | gerund | the Bear | behind Twins = twin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory |
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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