The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 41
In the edge of it sat the old Giant-woman, dozing in the sun, with a huge basket beside her.
What happens: sit, doze · To what, where: old Giant woman, edge, sun
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 edge | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 edge | det |
| 3 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | obl |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 9 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Giant | punct |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dozing | punct |
| 13 | dozing | doze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sat | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sun | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dozing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 basket | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 basket | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 basket | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 basket | amod |
| 21 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dozing | obl |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 basket | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the old Giant woman | the edge | of edge | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in edge=Location | |||
| 2 | doze | gerund | the sun | with a huge basket beside woman | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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