The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 42

She was so enormous and looked so fierce that the boys’ hearts stood still, and they would have hidden, but just then she caught sight of them, and called: “Come, little boys, and get into this basket of mine, and I will take you to my house.”

Who acts: woman, hearts · What happens: be, look, stand, hide, catch, call · To what, where: hearts, sight, little boys, basket, you, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, hearts), 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	4 enormous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enormous	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 enormous	advmod
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enormous	conj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 fierce	advmod
8	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 stood	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boys	det
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hearts	nmod:poss
12	’	's	PART	_	11 boys	case
13	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fierce	advcl
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 stood	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hidden	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hidden	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hidden	nsubj:pass
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hidden	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 hidden	aux
21	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 enormous	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 caught	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 caught	cc
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 then	advmod
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 caught	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 caught	nsubj
27	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enormous	parataxis
28	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 caught	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sight	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 called	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 called	cc
33	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 caught	conj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 Come	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 Come	punct
36	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 called	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 boys	punct
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 boys	amod
39	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 Come	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 get	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 get	cc
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 Come	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 basket	case
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 basket	det
45	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 mine	case
47	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 basket	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 take	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 take	cc
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 take	nsubj
51	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 take	aux
52	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 Come	conj
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 take	obj
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 house	case
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 house	nmod:poss
56	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 take	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 enormous	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 enormous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman				enormous property	tree rules
2	look	past	woman not said here				fierce property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	stand	past	the boys's hearts			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hide	would · perfect · passive		hearts = heart				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	catch	past	woman	sight of hearts		then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
6	call speech: assert	past	woman not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	come in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here	little boys				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	get in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here		this basket of mine			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination
9	take in a quote	future	woman	you	my house			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to house=Destination
10	sight			hearts = heart				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 42

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 42