--- title: The Giant-woman got up and opened the window and put her head out fo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:31:72 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 24 Máw Máw PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Sahv Sahv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 quartz quartz NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 41 stabbed stab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 49 mark _ _ 47 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 fixed _ _ 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/73/) - ↑ back to [The Hero Twins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/31/)