The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 63
“They have cooked away to almost nothing,” she said; and she and the Giant-baby sat down to eat.
Who acts: Mother · What happens: cook away, say, sit down, eat · To what, where: boys · 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 (Mother), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cooked | aux |
| 4 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 cooked | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 nothing | advmod |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 cooked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 baby | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 baby | det |
| 18 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 baby | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Giant | punct |
| 20 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 she | conj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sat | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook away in a quote | present · perfect · passive | boys = boy | to nothing result; away property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to nothing=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sit down | past | Mother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | Mother not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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