The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 65
_ Little-Deer-friends, I will not tell her”--and he began to howl again with pain, while the Fawns ran on.
Who acts: Little Deer friends, pueblo, Fawns · What happens: not tell, begin, howl, run on · To what, where: tooth · 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 (Little Deer friends, pueblo, Fawns), 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 | _ | 6 friends | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friends | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Little | punct |
| 4 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 friends | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Deer | punct |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friends | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 howl | mark |
| 19 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 howl | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 pain | case |
| 22 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 howl | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 ran | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Fawns | det |
| 26 | Fawns | Fawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 ran | nsubj |
| 27 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 began | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 ran | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | future | Little Deer friends | tooth | I nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | begin in a quote | past | pueblo | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | howl in a quote | to-infinitive | pueblo not said here | again | with pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme | |||
| 4 | run on in a quote | past | the Fawns | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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