The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 98
_ She could not stop, and kept making _ah-hútch_ until she sneezed herself to death.
Who acts: Sahv · What happens: not stop, keep, make, sneeze · To what, where: hútch, Sahv
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 (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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kept | cc |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | advcl |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 hútch | punct |
| 11 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 13 hútch | discourse |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ah | punct |
| 13 | hútch | hútch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 making | punct |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 sneezed | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sneezed | nsubj |
| 17 | sneezed | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | advcl |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 sneezed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sneezed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | could | Sahv | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | keep | past | Sahv not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Sahv not said here | hútch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hútch=Product | ||||
| 4 | sneeze | past | Sahv | Sahv | to death | 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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