The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 59
They ran around and caught snakes and toads and gathered up dirt and dropped them down into the oven through the smoke-hole; and then, watching when the Giant-woman’s back was turned, they sneaked into the house and hid in a huge _olla_ on the shelf.
Who acts: Máw · What happens: run around, catch, gather up, drop down, watch, turn · To what, where: snakes, dirt, Máw, oven, back, house
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 (Máw), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 caught | cc |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 6 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 toads | cc |
| 8 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 snakes | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gathered | cc |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 gathered | compound:prt |
| 12 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gathered | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dropped | cc |
| 14 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dropped | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 dropped | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 oven | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 oven | det |
| 19 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dropped | obl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 hole | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hole | det |
| 22 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hole | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 smoke | punct |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dropped | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 watching | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 watching | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 watching | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 watching | punct |
| 29 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 38 turned | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 woman | det |
| 32 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 woman | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Giant | punct |
| 34 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 back | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 woman | case |
| 36 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 turned | aux:pass |
| 38 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 watching | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sneaked | punct |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 sneaked | nsubj |
| 41 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 house | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 house | det |
| 44 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sneaked | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 hid | cc |
| 46 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 sneaked | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 olla | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 olla | det |
| 49 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 olla | amod |
| 50 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 olla | compound |
| 51 | olla | olla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hid | obl |
| 52 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 46 hid | punct |
| 53 | on | on | ADP | _ | 55 shelf | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 shelf | det |
| 55 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hid | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run around | past | Máw | around property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Máw not said here | snakes and toads | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gather up | past | Máw not said here | dirt | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drop down | past | Máw not said here | Máw | the oven | through the smoke hole | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into oven=Destination through hole=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | watch | gerund | Máw not said here | then | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | turn | past · passive | the Giant woman's back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sneak | past | Máw | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | ||||
| 8 | hide | past | Máw not said here | a huge _ olla | on the shelf | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in olla=Location |
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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