The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 47
“The wicked old Wolf has killed our _nana_!
What happens: kill · To what, where: wicked old Wolf
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: 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 | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Wolf | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Wolf | amod |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | aux |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nana | nmod:poss |
| 9 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nana | amod |
| 10 | nana | nana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the wicked old Wolf | our _ nana obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer nana=Result |
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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