The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 35

When she had climbed the big ladder to the roof and started down through the trap-door by the room-ladder, her sister cried out with joy at seeing her, and she was so startled that she fell from the ladder and broke her neck, and never could be brought to life again.

Who acts: Mother, sister · What happens: climb, start down, cry out, see, startle, fall · To what, where: big ladder, trap door, room ladder, Mother, ladder, neck

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 (Mother, sister), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 climbed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	aux
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ladder	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ladder	amod
7	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 roof	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 started	cc
12	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 started	compound:prt
14	through	through	ADP	_	18 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
16	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 trap	punct
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 started	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	23 ladder	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ladder	det
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ladder	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 room	punct
23	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 started	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cried	punct
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sister	nmod:poss
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cried	nsubj
27	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ladder	acl:relcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cried	compound:prt
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 joy	case
30	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cried	obl
31	at	at	SCONJ	_	32 seeing	mark
32	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 cried	advcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seeing	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 startled	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 startled	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 startled	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 startled	aux:pass
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 startled	advmod
39	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 climbed	conj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 fell	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 fell	nsubj
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 startled	advcl
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 ladder	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ladder	det
45	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fell	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 broke	cc
47	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 fell	conj
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 neck	nmod:poss
49	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 broke	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 brought	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 brought	cc
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	55 brought	advmod
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 brought	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 brought	aux:pass
55	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 startled	conj
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 life	case
57	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 brought	obl
58	again	again	ADV	_	55 brought	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past · perfect	Mother	the big ladder			to the roof result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ladder=Extent to roof=Result
2	start down	past	Mother not said here		the trap door		by the room ladder	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	cry out speech: express	past	Mother's sister	the room ladder not said here			with joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Topic
4	see	gerund	Mother's sister not said here	Mother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	startle	past · passive		Mother				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	fall	past	Mother		the ladder			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ladder=Initial_Location
7	break	past	Mother not said here	Mother's neck				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient
8	not bring	could · passive			life	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to life=Destination

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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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 35