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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 built | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fawns | det |
| 3 | Fawns | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 built | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 anxious | punct |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fawns | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 avenge | mark |
| 7 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anxious | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 death | det |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 avenge | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 death | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fawns | punct |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fire | amod |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 built | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cobs | case |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cobs | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 corn | punct |
| 21 | cobs | cob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fire | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fireplace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fireplace | det |
| 24 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cobs | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 threw | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 threw | cc |
| 27 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 built | conj |
| 28 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grass | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 coyote | punct |
| 30 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 threw | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 threw | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 threw | advcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 smoke | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 smoke | amod |
| 37 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avenge | to-infinitive | the Fawns not said here | the death of fawns's mother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | past | the Fawns | a big fire of corn cobs in the fireplace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | the Fawns not said here | coyote grass | grass | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent grass=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the Fawns not said here | a great smoke | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smoke=Product | ||||
| 5 | die | fawns's mother | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | fire | corn cobs in the fireplace | nom 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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