The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 50
But she was badly scorched and very angry, and still angrier when she looked in the basket and found only a lot of stones.
Who acts: woman · What happens: scorch, look, find · To what, where: woman, lot
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 scorched | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scorched | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scorched | aux:pass |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 scorched | advmod |
| 5 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 angry | cc |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 angry | advmod |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scorched | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 angrier | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 angrier | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 angrier | advmod |
| 12 | angrier | angry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 scorched | parataxis |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 looked | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angrier | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 basket | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 basket | det |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | conj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 lot | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lot | det |
| 23 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 stones | case |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lot | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scorched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorch | past · passive | woman | badly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | woman | in the basket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in basket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | woman not said here | a lot of stones | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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