The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 109
The Fawns ran and ran, across the plain, till they came to a big black hill of lava that stands alone in the valley southeast of Tomé.
Who acts: Fawns, lava · What happens: run, come, stand · To what, where: plain, big black hill, valley southeast
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, lava), 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 Fawns | det |
| 2 | Fawns | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 plain | punct |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 plain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plain | det |
| 9 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hill | amod |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hill | amod |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lava | case |
| 20 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hill | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stands | nsubj |
| 22 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lava | acl:relcl |
| 23 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 22 stands | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 southeast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 southeast | det |
| 26 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 southeast | compound |
| 27 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stands | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Tomé | case |
| 29 | Tomé | Tomé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 southeast | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Fawns | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | the Fawns not said here | the plain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | past | fawns = fawn | a big black hill of lava | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stand | present | lava | the valley southeast of Tomé | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in southeast=Location |
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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