The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 11
But once the Wolf and the Deer were like brothers; and it is only because the Wolf did very wickedly that they are enemies.
Who acts: Wolf, most · What happens: be · To what, where: enemies
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, most), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 were | cc |
| 2 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 4 Wolf | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 were | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Deer | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Deer | det |
| 7 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wolf | conj |
| 8 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 brothers | case |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 were | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 enemies | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 enemies | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 enemies | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 enemies | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 enemies | advmod |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wolf | det |
| 18 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 enemies | aux |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 wickedly | advmod |
| 21 | wickedly | wickedly | ADV | _ | 25 enemies | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 enemies | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 enemies | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 enemies | cop |
| 25 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 were | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the Wolf and the Deer | like brothers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present · do-support | most | enemies | Wolf nsubj; wickedly property | tree rules |
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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