The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 127

“Well,” said the Beaver, “I have been cutting trees here by the river ever since I was born, and I have no time to think about Fawns.”

Who acts: Beaver · What happens: say, cut, bear, have, think · To what, where: trees, Beaver · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Beaver	det
7	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cutting	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 cutting	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 cutting	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cutting	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cutting	aux
13	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cutting	obj
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 cutting	advmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cutting	obl
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 cutting	advmod
20	since	since	SCONJ	_	23 born	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 born	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 born	aux:pass
23	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cutting	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 think	mark
31	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 time	acl
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 Fawns	case
33	Fawns	fawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 think	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Beaver					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cut in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	the Beaver = beaver	trees	here	ever	by the river	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product
3	bear in a quote	past · passive		the Beaver = beaver				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	have in a quote	present	the Beaver = beaver			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	the Beaver = beaver not said here				about Fawns	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fawn=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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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 127