The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 81
When they reached Acoma and told their grandmother of their wonderful adventures, she held up her withered old hands in amazement.
Who acts: corn, sister · What happens: reach, tell, hold up, wither, adventure · To what, where: Acoma, grandmother, withered old hands, amazement · 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 (corn, sister), 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 | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 held | advcl |
| 4 | Acoma | Acoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 adventures | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 adventures | amod |
| 12 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grandmother | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 held | compound:prt |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hands | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hands | amod |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 held | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 amazement | case |
| 22 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | corn | Acoma | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent acoma=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | corn not said here | corn's grandmother of corn's wonderful adventures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hold up | past | sister | sister's withered old hands | amazement | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme | |||
| 4 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | adventure | corn | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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