The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 51
“_Pee-oo-weé-deh_ [little Deer], why are you so prettily spotted, and why do you have your eyelids red, while we are so ugly?”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: spot, have, be · To what, where: you, eyelids, weé deh
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 (you, we), 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 | _ | 9 deh | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pee | punct |
| 3 | Pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 oo | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pee | punct |
| 5 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weé | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 oo | punct |
| 7 | weé | weé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 deh | punct |
| 9 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 deh | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Deer | punct |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Deer | amod |
| 13 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | appos |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 Deer | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spotted | punct |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 spotted | advmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 spotted | aux:pass |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 spotted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 spotted | advmod |
| 20 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 21 spotted | advmod |
| 21 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 deh | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 have | cc |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 have | advmod |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 spotted | parataxis |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyelids | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyelids | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ugly | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 ugly | mark |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 ugly | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 ugly | cop |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 ugly | advmod |
| 36 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 have | parataxis |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 ugly | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 deh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot in a quote | present · passive | you | prettily property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present · do-support | you | your eyelids | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | we | ugly property | tree rules |
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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