The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 46
He was greatly frightened, and called his brother to listen, and again the same words came from the meat.
Who acts: same words · What happens: frighten, call, listen, come · To what, where: fire, brother, meat · 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 (same words), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 3 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 4 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 listen | mark |
| 11 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 words | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 words | amod |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 meat | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meat | det |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | fire | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | call | past | fire's brother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | the same words | the meat | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from meat=Initial_Location |
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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