The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 96
Máw-sahv crept up very carefully and threw in her face a lot of ground _chile_,[101] and ran.
Who acts: Máw sahv · What happens: creep up, throw, run · To what, where: 101, lot, face
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 (Máw sahv), 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 | Máw | Máw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sahv | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Máw | punct |
| 3 | sahv | sahv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 crept | compound:prt |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 carefully | advmod |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 crept | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lot | nmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 chile | punct |
| 18 | chile | chile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 101 | punct |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 101 | punct |
| 22 | 101 | 101 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 crept | obl |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 101 | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ran | cc |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep up | past | Máw sahv | 101 | carefully property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Máw sahv not said here | a lot of ground | Sahv's face | chile obl | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in face=Destination | ||
| 3 | run | past | Máw sahv not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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