The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 144
At this she was very much ashamed, and pulled back her foot; but soon her anger was stronger, and she started down again.
Who acts: Peé, anger · What happens: be, pull back, start down, anger · To what, where: this, foot
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, anger), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 ashamed | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ashamed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ashamed | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 ashamed | advmod |
| 7 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pulled | cc |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ashamed | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 pulled | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stronger | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 stronger | cc |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 stronger | advmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 anger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stronger | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stronger | cop |
| 20 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ashamed | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 started | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 started | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 started | nsubj |
| 24 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ashamed | parataxis |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 started | compound:prt |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 started | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peé | this | ashamed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pull back | past | Peé not said here | Peé's foot | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Peé's anger | soon, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | start down | past | Peé | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | anger | Peé | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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