The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 102
So the Wolf lost much time with her questions and with finding the trail again; but then she began to run harder than ever.
Who acts: Wolf, treachery · What happens: lose, find, begin, run, question · To what, where: trail
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 (Wolf, treachery), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 lost | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 questions | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 questions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 finding | cc |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 12 finding | mark |
| 12 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lost | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trail | det |
| 14 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finding | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 finding | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 began | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 run | mark |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 run | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 harder | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the Wolf | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | the Wolf not said here | the trail | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Topic | |||
| 3 | begin | past | treachery | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | treachery not said here | ever | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | question | treachery | nom question «communication 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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