The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 106
The Beaver took them on his back and carried them safely across to the other bank.
Who acts: Beaver · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: fawns, back, other bank
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 (Beaver), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beaver | det |
| 2 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 12 | across | across | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bank | amod |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Beaver | fawns = fawn | Beaver's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | carry | past | the Beaver not said here | fawns = fawn | the other bank | across, safely property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bank=Destination |
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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