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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 1

“DON CARLOS,” said Vitorino, throwing another log upon the fire, which caught his tall shadow and twisted it and set it dancing against the rocky walls of the cañon in which we were camped for the night, “did you ever hear why the Wolf and the Deer are enemies?”

Who acts: DON, fire, you, Deer, Vitorino · What happens: say, throw, catch, twist, set, dance · To what, where: log, fire, tall shadow, shadow, rocky walls, we · Speech: someone speaks here

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

punctnsubjappospunctpunctnsubjpunctadvcldetobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjacl:relclnmod:possamodobjccconjobjccconjobjxcompcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodcaseoblnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclcasedetoblpunctpunctauxnsubjadvmodconjadvmoddetobjccdetnsubjcopconjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTDONNOUNCARLOSPROPN,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBVitorinoPROPN,PUNCTthrowingVERBanotherDETlogNOUNuponADPtheDETfireNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONcaughtVERBhisPRONtallADJshadowNOUNandCCONJtwistedVERBitPRONandCCONJsetVERBitPRONdancingVERBagainstADPtheDETrockyADJwallsNOUNofADPtheDETcañonNOUNinADPwhichPRONwePRONwereAUXcampedVERBforADPtheDETnightNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTdidAUXyouPRONeverADVhearVERBwhyADVtheDETWolfPROPNandCCONJtheDETDeerNOUNareAUXenemiesNOUN?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 DONpunct
2DONdonNOUNNumber=Sing6 saidnsubj
3CARLOSCARLOSPROPNNumber=Sing2 DONappos
4,,PUNCT_2 DONpunct
5”"PUNCT_2 DONpunct
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7VitorinoVitorinoPROPNNumber=Sing6 saidnsubj
8,,PUNCT_9 throwingpunct
9throwingthrowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 saidadvcl
10anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind11 logdet
11loglogNOUNNumber=Sing9 throwingobj
12uponuponADP_14 firecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 firedet
14firefireNOUNNumber=Sing9 throwingobl
15,,PUNCT_17 caughtpunct
16whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel17 caughtnsubj
17caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 fireacl:relcl
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 shadownmod:poss
19talltallADJDegree=Pos20 shadowamod
20shadowshadowNOUNNumber=Sing17 caughtobj
21andandCCONJ_22 twistedcc
22twistedtwistVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 saidconj
23ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 twistedobj
24andandCCONJ_25 setcc
25setsetVERBVerbForm=Inf22 twistedconj
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 setobj
27dancingdanceVERBVerbForm=Ger25 setxcomp
28againstagainstADP_31 wallscase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 wallsdet
30rockyrockyADJDegree=Pos31 wallsamod
31wallswallNOUNNumber=Plur27 dancingobl
32ofofADP_34 cañoncase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 cañondet
34cañoncañonNOUNNumber=Sing31 wallsnmod
35ininADP_36 whichcase
36whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel39 campedobl
37wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs39 campednsubj:pass
38werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 campedaux:pass
39campedcampVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass34 cañonacl:relcl
40forforADP_42 nightcase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 nightdet
42nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing39 campedobl
43,,PUNCT_48 hearpunct
44“"PUNCT_48 hearpunct
45diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin48 hearaux
46youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs48 hearnsubj
47evereverADVPronType=Ind48 hearadvmod
48hearhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 twistedconj
49whywhyADVPronType=Int51 Wolfadvmod
50thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art51 Wolfdet
51WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing48 hearobj
52andandCCONJ_56 enemiescc
53thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art54 Deerdet
54DeerdeerNOUNNumber=Plur56 enemiesnsubj
55arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin56 enemiescop
56enemiesenemyNOUNNumber=Plur51 Wolfconj
57??PUNCT_51 Wolfpunct
58”"PUNCT_22 twistedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: askpastDONVitorino nsubjvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2throwgerundDON not said hereanother logthe firevn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent log=Theme upon fire=Destination
3catchpastthe fireVitorino's tall shadowvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme
4twistpastDON not said hereshadowvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5setinfinitiveDON not said hereshadowtree rules
6dancegerundDON not said herethe rocky walls of the cañonvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location
7camppast · passivewethe cañonnightvn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in which=Location
8hear in a quotepast · do-supportyouthe Wolf and enemiesevervn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus
9is a in a quotepresentthe Deerenemiestree rules
10shadowVitorinonom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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