The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 72
The Giant-woman got up and opened the window and put her head out for a breath of fresh air; and Máw-Sahv, pulling out the white-hot splinter of quartz from the fire, stabbed her in the back so that she died.
Who acts: Giant woman, Máw, woman · What happens: get up, open, put out, pull out, stab, die · To what, where: window, head, white hot splinter, woman, back
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 (Giant woman, Máw, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Giant | punct |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 opened | cc |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 opened | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 breath | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 breath | det |
| 18 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 20 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 air | amod |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breath | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 stabbed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 stabbed | cc |
| 24 | Máw | Máw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 stabbed | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sahv | punct |
| 26 | Sahv | Sahv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Máw | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pulling | punct |
| 28 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Máw | acl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 pulling | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 splinter | det |
| 31 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 splinter | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 white | punct |
| 33 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 splinter | amod |
| 34 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pulling | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 quartz | case |
| 36 | quartz | quartz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 splinter | nmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 fire | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fire | det |
| 39 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 quartz | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Máw | punct |
| 41 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stabbed | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 back | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 back | det |
| 45 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stabbed | obl |
| 46 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 49 died | mark |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 so | fixed |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 died | nsubj |
| 49 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 stabbed | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the Giant woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | open | past | the Giant woman not said here | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put out | infinitive | the Giant woman not said here | woman's head | for a breath of fresh air; out property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | |||
| 4 | pull out | gerund | Máw not said here | the white hot splinter of quartz from the fire | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stab | past | Máw | woman | the back | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in back=Location | |||
| 6 | die | past | woman | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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