The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 66
When the Wolf came to her home with the rest of the meat, the Cubs were not there; and she went over to the house of the Deer.
Who acts: Wolf, Cubs, tooth · What happens: come, not be, go over · To what, where: home
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 (Wolf, Cubs, tooth), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 went | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rest | det |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 meat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meat | det |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cubs | det |
| 16 | Cubs | Cub | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 there | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 there | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 rest | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Deer | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Deer | det |
| 30 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Wolf | tooth's home | with the rest of the meat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not is | past | the Cubs | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go over | past | tooth | to the house of the Deer; over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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