The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 107
When they had thanked him, they asked him not to tell the old Wolf about them.
Who acts: fawns · What happens: thank, ask, not tell · To what, where: fawns, Beaver, old Wolf · 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 (fawns), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | aux |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 asked | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tell | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Wolf | amod |
| 15 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past · perfect · passive | fawns = fawn | Beaver | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | fawns = fawn | Beaver | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | fawns = fawn not said here | the old Wolf | about fawns = fawn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient about they=Topic |
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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