The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 105
She ran to her house and painted one side of her face black with charcoal, and the other side red with the blood of an animal;[102] and, taking a bag of ashes, ran down the cliff and out at the Bear, to make it leave the boys and come after her.
Who acts: grandmother, cliff · What happens: run, paint, take, run down, make, leave · To what, where: other side, one side, bag, cliff, boys
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, cliff), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 painted | cc |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 side | nummod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 charcoal | case |
| 15 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 black | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 side | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 side | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 21 | red | red | ADV | _ | 20 side | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 blood | det |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 side | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 animal | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 animal | det |
| 27 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blood | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 102 | punct |
| 29 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 30 102 | punct |
| 30 | 102 | 102 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 ran | obl |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 30 102 | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 taking | cc |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 taking | punct |
| 34 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bag | det |
| 36 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 taking | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 ashes | case |
| 38 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 bag | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ran | punct |
| 40 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 41 | down | down | ADP | _ | 40 ran | compound:prt |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 cliff | det |
| 43 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ran | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Bear | cc |
| 45 | out | out | ADV | _ | 48 Bear | advmod |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 Bear | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Bear | det |
| 48 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 cliff | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 make | punct |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 make | mark |
| 51 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 40 ran | parataxis |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 make | obj |
| 53 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 make | xcomp |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 boys | det |
| 55 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 leave | obj |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 come | cc |
| 57 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 leave | conj |
| 58 | after | after | ADP | _ | 59 her | case |
| 59 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 come | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | grandmother | the other side with the blood of a animal | to grandmother's house result; 102 obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | |||
| 2 | paint | past | grandmother not said here | one side of grandmother's face | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | grandmother not said here | a bag of ashes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run down | past | grandmother not said here | the cliff and the Bear | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | cliff | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | leave | infinitive | cliff not said here | the boys | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come | present | cliff not said here | after grandmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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