The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 162

“She spilled!” shouted all the Deer-people, and the fifty chosen warriors rushed upon her and tore her to pieces with their sharp horns.

Who acts: Ho, Deer people, fifty chosen warriors · What happens: spill, shout, choose, rush, tore · To what, where: Ho · 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 (Ho, Deer people, fifty chosen warriors), 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	_	3 spilled	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spilled	nsubj
3	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 spilled	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 spilled	punct
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spilled	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 people	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
9	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 people	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Deer	punct
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shouted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rushed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rushed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 warriors	det
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 warriors	nummod
16	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 warriors	amod
17	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rushed	nsubj
18	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spilled	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rushed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tore	cc
22	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spilled	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tore	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 pieces	case
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tore	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 horns	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horns	nmod:poss
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 horns	amod
29	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tore	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spilled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spill in a quote	past	Ho			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	all Deer people			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choose	participle				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rush	past	the fifty chosen warriors		upon Ho	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Trajectory
5	tore	past	Ho not said here	Ho	to pieces; with warriors's sharp horns	tree rules

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 162

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 162