The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 48
Presently the Giant-woman got up and started on toward home; but in a minute or two her head and _manta_ were all of a blaze.
Who acts: Giant woman · What happens: get up, start · To what, where: home
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), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Giant | punct |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 got | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 started | cc |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 got | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 minute | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 minute | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 minute | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 minute | det |
| 17 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 two | cc |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 minute | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 two | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 manta | cc |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 manta | punct |
| 24 | manta | manta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 minute | conj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 all | punct |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 all | cop |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 minute | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 blaze | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blaze | det |
| 30 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 all | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the Giant woman | minute | presently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | start | participle | the Giant woman not said here | home | 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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