The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 60

For about four miles the Indian left the galloping donkey far behind; but he could not keep up such a tremendous pace, and the burro began to gain.

Who acts: Indian, donkey, burro · What happens: leave, gallop, not keep up, begin, gain · To what, where: galloping donkey

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 (Indian, donkey, burro), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 miles	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 four	advmod
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 miles	nummod
4	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Indian	det
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 donkey	det
9	galloping	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 donkey	amod
10	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 behind	advmod
12	behind	behind	ADV	_	10 donkey	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 keep	advmod
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 keep	compound:prt
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 pace	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pace	det
22	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pace	amod
23	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 burro	det
27	burro	burro	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 gain	mark
30	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the Indian	the galloping donkey	for four miles	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme for mile=Recipient
2	gallop	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not keep up	could	donkey		such tremendous pace conj	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	the burro			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	gain	to-infinitive	the burro not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «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.

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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 60

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 60