The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 103
In the mean time the Fawns had come to the bank of the Rio Grande, and there was _P’ah-chah-hlóo-hli_, the Beaver, hard at work cutting down a tree with his big teeth.
Who acts: Fawns, P’ah chah hlóo, work · What happens: come, be, cut down · To what, where: bank, tree
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 (Fawns, P’ah chah hlóo, work), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fawns | det |
| 6 | Fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Grande | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Grande | det |
| 14 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Grande | compound |
| 15 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bank | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 was | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | conj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 hlóo | punct |
| 21 | P’ah | P'ah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hlóo | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 P’ah | punct |
| 23 | chah | chah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hlóo | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 chah | punct |
| 25 | hlóo | hlóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 hli | punct |
| 27 | hli | hli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hlóo | appos |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 hli | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Beaver | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Beaver | det |
| 31 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hli | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hard | punct |
| 33 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hlóo | parataxis |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 work | case |
| 35 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hard | obl |
| 36 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 work | acl |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 cutting | compound:prt |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 tree | det |
| 39 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cutting | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 teeth | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 42 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 teeth | amod |
| 43 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cutting | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the Fawns | the bank of the Rio Grande | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | P’ah chah hlóo | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut down | gerund | work not said here | a tree | with hlóo's big teeth | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with tooth=Instrument |
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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