The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 38
He sneaked about their camp, snapping up odd scraps--for he was nearly starved.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: sneak, snap up, starve · To what, where: odd scraps, Coyote
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 (Coyote), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sneaked | nsubj |
| 2 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 camp | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 camp | nmod:poss |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sneaked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 snapping | punct |
| 7 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sneaked | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 snapping | compound:prt |
| 9 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scraps | amod |
| 10 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 snapping | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 starved | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 starved | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 starved | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 starved | aux:pass |
| 15 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 16 starved | advmod |
| 16 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sneaked | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sneaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak | past | Coyote | about sisters's camp | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about camp=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | snap up | gerund | Coyote not said here | odd scraps | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scrap=Theme | ||||
| 3 | starve | past · passive | Coyote | nearly property | tree rules |
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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