The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 51
She retraced her steps until she found the boys hidden in the pine-tree, and said to them: “Come down, children, and get into my basket, that I may take you to my house, for now we are almost there.”
Who acts: woman, I, we · What happens: retrace, find, hide, say, come down, get · To what, where: steps, boys, pine tree, children, basket, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I, we), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 retraced | nsubj |
| 2 | retraced | retrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 steps | nmod:poss |
| 4 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 retraced | obj |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 found | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 retraced | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boys | det |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 boys | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 13 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 pine | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hidden | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 retraced | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Come | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Come | punct |
| 23 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | parataxis |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 Come | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 children | punct |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Come | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 get | cc |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Come | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 basket | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 basket | nmod:poss |
| 32 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 take | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 take | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 take | nsubj |
| 36 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 take | aux |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Come | conj |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 take | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 house | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 house | nmod:poss |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 take | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 now | punct |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 now | case |
| 44 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 take | advmod |
| 45 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 there | nsubj |
| 46 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 there | cop |
| 47 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 48 there | advmod |
| 48 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 now | ccomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 retraced | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 retraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retrace | past | woman | woman's steps | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | woman | the boys | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hide | participle | the boys not said here | the pine tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | boys = boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come down in a quote | infinitive | children | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get in a quote | infinitive | my basket | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination | |||||
| 7 | take in a quote | may | I | boys = boy | my house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | we | almost, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | step | woman | nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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