The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 88
But soon it hurt him, and he stopped when his ears were pulled forward.
Who acts: ear, _ · What happens: hurt, stop, pull · To what, where: _, ears
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 (ear, _), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 hurt | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stopped | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | conj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 pulled | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pulled | aux:pass |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stopped | advcl |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 pulled | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past | ear | _ | soon property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | |||
| 2 | stop | past | _ | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pull | past · passive | _'s ears | forward property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: 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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