The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 39
But soon the Wolf bent down and caught the trusting Deer by the throat, and killed her.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: bend down, catch, trust, kill · To what, where: Deer, tired
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 bent | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 bent | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bent | nsubj |
| 5 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 bent | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 caught | cc |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bent | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trusting | det |
| 10 | trusting | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 caught | xcomp |
| 11 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 trusting | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 throat | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 throat | det |
| 14 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trusting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bent | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | past | the Wolf | down, soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | the Wolf not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trust | gerund | the Wolf not said here | Deer | by the throat | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | |||
| 4 | kill | past | the Wolf not said here | tired | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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