The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 102
At that, all the animals fell upon the wicked Toad, and killed it; and gave thanks to Those Above for the deliverance of their friend.
Who acts: animals · What happens: fall, kill, give, deliver · To what, where: that, Toad, thanks, Those, friend
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 fell | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 animals | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 Toad | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Toad | det |
| 10 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Toad | amod |
| 11 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 killed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 killed | cc |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 19 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Those | case |
| 21 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 gave | obl |
| 22 | Above | above | ADV | _ | 18 gave | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 deliverance | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 deliverance | det |
| 25 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 friend | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friend | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deliverance | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | all animals | that | upon the wicked Toad | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at that=Location | |||
| 2 | kill | past | all animals not said here | Toad | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | all animals not said here | thanks | Those | for the deliverance of animals's friend; above property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to that=Recipient for deliverance=Asset | ||
| 4 | deliver | animals's friend | nom deliverance «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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