The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 49
Next morning the Wolf went away to the mountain to bring the rest of the deer-meat; and when she was gone her Cubs came over to play with the Fawns, as they were used to doing.
Who acts: Wolf, mama, Cubs · What happens: go away, bring, be, come over, play, use · To what, where: mountain, rest, 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: who acts (Wolf, mama, Cubs), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rest | det |
| 13 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 meat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meat | det |
| 16 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meat | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 deer | punct |
| 18 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 gone | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | cop |
| 24 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 came | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Cubs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Cubs | Cub | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 27 came | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 play | mark |
| 30 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 came | advcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 Fawns | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Fawns | det |
| 33 | Fawns | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 play | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 used | punct |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 used | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 used | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 used | aux:pass |
| 38 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 play | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 40 doing | mark |
| 40 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 used | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the Wolf | the mountain | morning | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the Wolf not said here | the rest of the deer meat | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | mama | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come over | past | mama's Cubs | over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | play | to-infinitive | mama's Cubs not said here | with the Fawns | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fawn=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | use | past · passive | Wolf | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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