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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 14

But he had never really found out how handsome he was, and so thought little about girls anyhow, caring more to run fastest in the races and to kill the most game in the hunts.

Who acts: Poo · What happens: not find out, be, think, care, run, kill · To what, where: little girls, more, races, most game, hunts

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poo), 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

ccnsubjauxadvmodadvmodcompound:prtadvmodxcompnsubjcoppunctccadvmodparataxisamodcaseobjdiscoursepunctadvclobjmarkxcompadvclcasedetoblccmarkconjdetamodobjcasedetoblpunctrootButCCONJhePRONhadAUXneverADVreallyADVfoundVERBoutADPhowADVhandsomeADJhePRONwasAUX,PUNCTandCCONJsoADVthoughtVERBlittleADJaboutADPgirlsNOUNanyhowINTJ,PUNCTcaringVERBmoreADJtoPARTrunVERBfastestADJinADPtheDETracesNOUNandCCONJtoPARTkillVERBtheDETmostADJgameNOUNinADPtheDEThuntsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_6 foundcc
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 foundnsubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 foundaux
4neverneverADVPronType=Neg6 foundadvmod
5reallyreallyADV_6 foundadvmod
6foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
7outoutADP_6 foundcompound:prt
8howhowADVPronType=Int9 handsomeadvmod
9handsomehandsomeADJDegree=Pos6 foundxcomp
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 handsomensubj
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 handsomecop
12,,PUNCT_15 thoughtpunct
13andandCCONJ_15 thoughtcc
14sosoADV_15 thoughtadvmod
15thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 foundparataxis
16littlelittleADJDegree=Pos18 girlsamod
17aboutaboutADP_18 girlscase
18girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur15 thoughtobj
19anyhowanyhowINTJ_18 girlsdiscourse
20,,PUNCT_21 caringpunct
21caringcareVERBVerbForm=Ger15 thoughtadvcl
22moremoreADJDegree=Cmp21 caringobj
23totoPART_24 runmark
24runrunVERBVerbForm=Inf21 caringxcomp
25fastestfastADJDegree=Sup24 runadvcl
26ininADP_28 racescase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 racesdet
28racesraceNOUNNumber=Plur24 runobl
29andandCCONJ_31 killcc
30totoPART_31 killmark
31killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf24 runconj
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 gamedet
33mostmostADJDegree=Sup34 gameamod
34gamegameNOUNNumber=Sing31 killobj
35ininADP_37 huntscase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 huntsdet
37huntshuntNOUNNumber=Plur31 killobl
38..PUNCT_6 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not find outpast · perfectPoovn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2ispastPoohandsome propertytree rules
3think speech: otherpastlittle girlsvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme
4caregerundmoretree rules
5runto-infinitivethe racesvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Trajectory
6killto-infinitivethe most gamethe huntsvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

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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