The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 141
But as soon as she set her foot on the first rung, all the Deer-people shouted:
Who acts: Peé, Deer people · What happens: set, shout · To what, where: foot, first rung
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 (Peé, Deer people), 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 | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 set | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rung | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rung | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 rung | amod |
| 12 | rung | rung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shouted | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 people | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 16 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 people | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Deer | punct |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shouted | nsubj |
| 19 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Peé | Peé's foot | the first rung | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on rung=Destination | ||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | all Deer people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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