The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 49
With a howl that shook the earth, she dropped the basket and rolled on the ground, grinding her great head into the sand until she at last got the fire extinguished.
Who acts: that, woman, fire · What happens: shake, drop, roll, grind, get, extinguish · To what, where: earth, basket, ground, great head, sand
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 (that, woman, fire), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 howl | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 howl | det |
| 3 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 shook | nsubj |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dropped | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dropped | nsubj |
| 10 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shook | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 basket | det |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dropped | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rolled | cc |
| 14 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 basket | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rolled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grinding | punct |
| 19 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dropped | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 head | amod |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grinding | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 sand | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sand | det |
| 25 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grinding | obl |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 got | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 last | case |
| 29 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 she | nmod |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dropped | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fire | det |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 extinguished | nsubj |
| 33 | extinguished | extinguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 got | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | that | the earth | with a howl | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient with howl=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | drop | past | woman | the basket | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll | participle | woman not said here | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | grind | gerund | woman not said here | woman's great head | the sand | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent head=Material into sand=Product | |||
| 5 | get | past | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | extinguish | past | the fire | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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