The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 44
But just as he was to turn west, up sprang a rabbit in front of him, and taunted him, and went back in its hole, digging.
Who acts: Pee · What happens: be, spring, taunt, go back, dig · To what, where: rabbit, front, Pee, hole
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 (Pee), 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 | _ | 7 turn | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 turn | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 turn | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 turn | mark |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | west | west | ADV | _ | 7 turn | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 sprang | advmod |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 turn | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rabbit | det |
| 13 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 front | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taunted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taunted | cc |
| 20 | taunted | taunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sprang | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 taunted | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taunted | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hole | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hole | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 digging | punct |
| 30 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 went | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pee | turn, west property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring | gerund | Pee not said here | a rabbit | front of Pee | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rabbit=Theme | |||
| 3 | taunt | past | Pee | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go back | past | front's hole | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | dig | gerund | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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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