The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 58
When the old Giant-woman had gone into the house, Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee broke the smaller stone that closed the smoke-hole of the oven, and crawled out from their fiery prison unsinged.
Who acts: old Giant woman, Máw, smaller stone · What happens: go, break, close, crawl out · To what, where: house, smaller stone, smoke hole, fiery prison
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 (old Giant woman, Máw, smaller stone), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 4 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Giant | punct |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 broke | advcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Máw | punct |
| 13 | Máw | Máw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 broke | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sahv | punct |
| 15 | Sahv | Sahv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Máw | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wee | cc |
| 17 | Oó | Oó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wee | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Oó | punct |
| 19 | yah | yah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wee | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 yah | punct |
| 21 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Máw | conj |
| 22 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stone | det |
| 24 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 stone | amod |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 broke | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 closed | nsubj |
| 27 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stone | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hole | det |
| 29 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hole | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 smoke | punct |
| 31 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 closed | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 oven | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 oven | det |
| 34 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hole | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 crawled | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 crawled | cc |
| 37 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 broke | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 crawled | compound:prt |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 prison | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 prison | nmod:poss |
| 41 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 prison | amod |
| 42 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 crawled | obl |
| 43 | unsinged | unsinged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 prison | amod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the old Giant woman | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | break | past | Máw and Sahv and Oó yah wee | the smaller stone | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | close | past | the smaller stone | the smoke hole of the oven | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crawl out | past | Máw and Sahv and Oó yah wee not said here | Máw's fiery prison | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from prison=Trajectory |
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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