The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 28
But the Rabbit threw off his blanket, and tightened his _taparabo_, and said: “Pooh!
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: throw off, tighten, say · To what, where: blanket, taparabo, Pooh · 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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 threw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rabbit | det |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 threw | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tightened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tightened | cc |
| 10 | tightened | tighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 threw | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 taparabo | nmod:poss |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 taparabo | punct |
| 13 | taparabo | taparabo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tightened | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 tightened | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Pooh | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Pooh | punct |
| 20 | Pooh | Pooh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw off | past | the Rabbit | Rabbit's blanket | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tighten | participle | the Rabbit not said here | Rabbit's taparabo | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent taparabo=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Rabbit not said here | Pooh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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