The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 134
As soon as the Beaver got a breath, down he went again; and so he kept doing all the way across, until the Wolf was nearly drowned--but she clung to his neck desperately, and he could not shake her off.
Who acts: Beaver, Peé · What happens: get, go, keep, do, drown, cling · To what, where: breath, way, Wolf, Peé
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, Peé), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 got | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Beaver | det |
| 5 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 breath | det |
| 8 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kept | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 kept | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | parataxis |
| 19 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 kept | xcomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 way | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 doing | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | across | across | ADV | _ | 19 doing | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 drowned | punct |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 drowned | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Wolf | det |
| 27 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 drowned | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 drowned | aux:pass |
| 29 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 30 drowned | advmod |
| 30 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 kept | conj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 clung | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 clung | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 clung | nsubj |
| 34 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 neck | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 neck | nmod:poss |
| 37 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 clung | obl |
| 38 | desperately | desperately | ADV | _ | 34 clung | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 shake | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 shake | cc |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 shake | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 shake | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 shake | advmod |
| 44 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 clung | advcl |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 shake | obj |
| 46 | off | off | ADP | _ | 44 shake | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Beaver | a breath | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | Beaver | again | down property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | keep | past | Beaver | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | gerund | Beaver not said here | all way | across property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | drown | past · passive | the Wolf | nearly property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | cling | past | Peé | to Beaver's neck; desperately property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to neck=Co-Theme | ||||
| 7 | not shake off | could | Beaver | Peé | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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