The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 163
That was the end of the treacherous Wolf; and from that day the Wolf and the Deer have been enemies, and the Wolf is a little afraid of the Deer.
Who acts: That, Deer, Wolf · What happens: be · To what, where: end, enemies
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 (That, Deer, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 end | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Wolf | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wolf | det |
| 7 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Wolf | amod |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 day | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 day | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 enemies | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Deer | det |
| 18 | Deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 enemies | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 enemies | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 enemies | cop |
| 21 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Wolf | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 afraid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 afraid | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Wolf | det |
| 25 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 afraid | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 afraid | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 little | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 afraid | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Wolf | amod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Deer | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Deer | det |
| 32 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 afraid | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the end and that day | of the treacherous Wolf | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | the Deer | enemies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Wolf | of the Deer; a little obl:unmarked; afraid property | 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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