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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 54

So the Fawns, anxious to avenge the death of their mother, built a big fire of corn-cobs in the fireplace, and threw coyote-grass on it to make a great smoke.

Who acts: Fawns, mother · What happens: avenge, build, throw, make, die, fire · To what, where: death, big fire, coyote grass, grass, great smoke, corn cobs

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, mother), 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctconjmarkxcompdetobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctdetamodobjcasecompoundpunctnmodcasedetnmodpunctccconjcompoundpunctobjcaseoblmarkadvcldetamodobjpunctrootSoADVtheDETFawnsPROPN,PUNCTanxiousADJtoPARTavengeVERBtheDETdeathNOUNofADPtheirPRONmotherNOUN,PUNCTbuiltVERBaDETbigADJfireNOUNofADPcornNOUN-PUNCTcobsNOUNinADPtheDETfireplaceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthrewVERBcoyoteNOUN-PUNCTgrassNOUNonADPitPRONtoPARTmakeVERBaDETgreatADJsmokeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_14 builtadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Fawnsdet
3FawnsFawnPROPNNumber=Plur14 builtnsubj
4,,PUNCT_5 anxiouspunct
5anxiousanxiousADJDegree=Pos3 Fawnsconj
6totoPART_7 avengemark
7avengeavengeVERBVerbForm=Inf5 anxiousxcomp
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 deathdet
9deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing7 avengeobj
10ofofADP_12 mothercase
11theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 mothernmod:poss
12mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing9 deathnmod
13,,PUNCT_3 Fawnspunct
14builtbuildVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 firedet
16bigbigADJDegree=Pos17 fireamod
17firefireNOUNNumber=Sing14 builtobj
18ofofADP_21 cobscase
19corncornNOUNNumber=Sing21 cobscompound
20--PUNCT_19 cornpunct
21cobscobNOUNNumber=Plur17 firenmod
22ininADP_24 fireplacecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 fireplacedet
24fireplacefireplaceNOUNNumber=Sing21 cobsnmod
25,,PUNCT_27 threwpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 threwcc
27threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 builtconj
28coyotecoyoteNOUNNumber=Sing30 grasscompound
29--PUNCT_28 coyotepunct
30grassgrassNOUNNumber=Sing27 threwobj
31ononADP_32 itcase
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 threwobl
33totoPART_34 makemark
34makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf27 threwadvcl
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 smokedet
36greatgreatADJDegree=Pos37 smokeamod
37smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing34 makeobj
38..PUNCT_14 builtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1avengeto-infinitivethe Fawns not said herethe death of fawns's mothertree rules
2buildpastthe Fawnsa big fire of corn cobs in the fireplacevn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3throwpastthe Fawns not said herecoyote grassgrassvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent grass=Theme on it=Destination
4maketo-infinitivethe Fawns not said herea great smokevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smoke=Product
5diefawns's mothernom death «event intransitive»: of=agent
6firecorn cobs in the fireplacenom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

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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