The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 126
I’m asking if you saw two Fawns.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, ask, see · To what, where: two Fawns
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ’m | nsubj |
| 2 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ’m | csubj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asking | ccomp |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Fawns | nummod |
| 8 | Fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’m | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen | past | you | two Fawns | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fawn=Stimulus |
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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