The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 62
Then she went out and unsealed the oven, and brought in the sad mess the boys had put there.
Who acts: Mother, sad mess · What happens: go out, unseal, bring, put · To what, where: oven, sad mess, boys
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 (Mother, sad mess), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unsealed | cc |
| 6 | unsealed | unseal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oven | det |
| 8 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unsealed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mess | det |
| 14 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mess | amod |
| 15 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boys | det |
| 17 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mess | acl:relcl |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 put | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Mother | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | unseal | past | Mother not said here | the oven | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | participle | Mother not said here | the sad mess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | put | past · perfect · passive | the sad mess not said here | the boys | there | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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