The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 41
The false Wolf took off the hide of the Deer, and cut off some of the meat and carried it home on her load of _amole_ and wood.
Who acts: false Wolf · What happens: take off, cut off, carry · To what, where: hide, some, load
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 (false 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 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wolf | amod |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hide | det |
| 7 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Deer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Deer | det |
| 10 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hide | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | parataxis |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 cut | compound:prt |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 cut | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 meat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meat | det |
| 18 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 some | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cut | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carried | obj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 carried | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 load | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 load | nmod:poss |
| 25 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 amole | case |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 of | punct |
| 28 | amole | amole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 load | nmod |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 carried | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wood | cc |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | the false Wolf | the hide of the Deer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | some of the meat | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector some=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | carry | past | hide | tired's load of amole | wood conj; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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