The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 52
“Oh,” said the Fawns, “that is because when we were little, like you, our mother put us in a room and smoked us, and made us spotted.”
Who acts: Fawns, that, you · What happens: say, be, put, smoke, make, spot · To what, where: us, room · 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 (Fawns, that, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fawns | det |
| 7 | Fawns | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 little | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 little | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 little | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 little | cop |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 little | mark |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 little | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 little | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 little | cop |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Fawns | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | nsubj |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 smoked | cc |
| 29 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 put | conj |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 smoked | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 made | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 made | obj |
| 35 | spotted | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 made | parataxis |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Fawns | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | we nsubj; little property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | past | you | us | a room | our mother nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in room=Destination | ||
| 4 | smoke in a quote | past | you not said here | us | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent we=Source | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | past | the Fawns not said here | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product | ||||
| 6 | spot in a quote | past | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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