The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 158
The old Wolf was very careful, and had almost finished her soup without spilling a drop.
Who acts: old Wolf · What happens: be, finish, spill · To what, where: soup, drop
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 (old Wolf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wolf | amod |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 careful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 careful | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 careful | advmod |
| 6 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finished | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 finished | aux |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 finished | advmod |
| 11 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 careful | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 soup | nmod:poss |
| 13 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finished | obj |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 spilling | mark |
| 15 | spilling | spill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 finished | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drop | det |
| 17 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spilling | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old Wolf | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | the old Wolf not said here | _'s soup | almost property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality soup=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | spill | gerund | the old Wolf not said here | a drop | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drop=Theme |
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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