The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 11
It fled eastward, while the herd went south; and the hunter began to trail it by the drops of blood.
Who acts: herd, hunter · What happens: flee, go, begin, trail · To what, where: herd
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herd, hunter), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eastward | eastward | ADV | _ | 2 fled | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 herd | det |
| 7 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fled | conj |
| 9 | south | south | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hunter | det |
| 13 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fled | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 trail | mark |
| 16 | trail | trail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 trail | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 drops | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 drops | det |
| 20 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trail | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drops | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | herd | eastward property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the herd | south property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the hunter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | trail | to-infinitive | the hunter not said here | herd | by the drops of blood | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by drop=Trajectory |
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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