The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 45
The Giant-woman promised, and the lads clambered into her basket, which she took upon her back and started off.
Who acts: Giant woman, lads, basket · What happens: promise, clamber, take, start off · To what, where: basket
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 (Giant woman, lads, basket), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Giant | punct |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promised | nsubj |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clambered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clambered | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lads | det |
| 9 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clambered | nsubj |
| 10 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 promised | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 basket | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 basket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clambered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 took | nsubj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 basket | acl:relcl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 started | cc |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 started | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the Giant woman | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | clamber | past | the lads | woman's basket | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | past | woman's basket | upon woman's back; woman nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | start off | past | woman's basket not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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