The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 56
Then she took them and washed them very carefully, and taking them by the necks, thrust them into the glowing oven and sealed the door with a great, flat rock, and left them there to be roasted.
Who acts: woman, taking · What happens: take, wash, thrust, glow, seal, leave · To what, where: boys, glowing oven, door
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, taking), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 washed | cc |
| 6 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 washed | obj |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 carefully | advmod |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 6 washed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thrust | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thrust | cc |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 thrust | csubj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 necks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 necks | det |
| 16 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 18 | thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thrust | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 oven | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 oven | det |
| 22 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 oven | amod |
| 23 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thrust | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sealed | cc |
| 25 | sealed | seal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sealed | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 rock | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 rock | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rock | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 great | punct |
| 32 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rock | amod |
| 33 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sealed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 left | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 left | cc |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 left | obj |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 left | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 roasted | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 roasted | aux:pass |
| 41 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 left | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | woman | boys = boy | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | wash | past | woman not said here | boys = boy | carefully property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | boys = boy | by the necks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | thrust | infinitive | taking | boys = boy | the glowing oven | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | seal | past | woman not said here | the door | with a great flat rock | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with rock=Instrument | |||
| 7 | leave | past | woman not said here | boys = boy | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 8 | roast | to-infinitive · passive | woman not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |
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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