The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 13
The deer fled up the mountain, and the two friends followed by the drops of blood.
Who acts: deer, drops · What happens: flee up, follow · To what, where: mountain, two friends
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, drops), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 deer | det |
| 2 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 fled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 followed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 friends | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 friends | nummod |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fled | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 drops | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 drops | det |
| 15 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 followed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 blood | case |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drops | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee up | past | the deer | the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle · passive | the drops of blood | the two friends | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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