The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 46

As she passed through the woods, the boys grabbed lumps of pitch from the tall pines and smeared it all over her head and back so softly that she did not notice it.

Who acts: woman, boys · What happens: pass, grab, smear, not notice · To what, where: woods, lumps, tall pines, pitch, head

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, boys), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 passed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grabbed	advcl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boys	det
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grabbed	nsubj
10	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grabbed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 pitch	case
13	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lumps	nmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 pines	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pines	det
16	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pines	amod
17	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grabbed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 smeared	cc
19	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grabbed	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 smeared	obj
21	all	all	ADV	_	24 head	advmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smeared	obl:unmarked
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 back	cc
26	back	back	ADV	_	24 head	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 softly	advmod
28	softly	softly	ADV	_	19 smeared	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 notice	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 notice	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 notice	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 notice	advmod
33	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 smeared	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 notice	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grabbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	woman		the woods		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location
2	grab	past	the boys	lumps of pitch	the tall pines		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lump=Theme from pine=Source
3	smear	past	the boys not said here	pitch	woman's head	softly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Destination
4	not notice	past · do-support	woman	pitch			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 46

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 46