The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 95
At last they came to the She-Bear’s house; and there was old Quée-ah asleep in front of the door.
Who acts: hunters, old Quée · What happens: come, be · To what, where: last, front
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 (hunters, old Quée), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 7 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 house | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 She | punct |
| 9 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Bear | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asleep | cop |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Quée | amod |
| 17 | Quée | Quée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 asleep | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 asleep | punct |
| 19 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 20 asleep | discourse |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 front | case |
| 22 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asleep | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 front | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hunters = hunter | last | to Bear's house grandmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | old Quée | front of the door | asleep property | tree rules |
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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