The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 68
When she saw that, the old Wolf was wild with rage, and vowed to follow the Fawns and eat them without mercy.
Who acts: tooth, old Wolf · What happens: see, be, vow, follow, eat · To what, where: that, Fawns, Wolf
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 (tooth, old Wolf), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wild | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wolf | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Wolf | amod |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wild | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wild | cop |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rage | case |
| 12 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wild | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vowed | cc |
| 15 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 follow | mark |
| 17 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 vowed | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fawns | det |
| 19 | Fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 follow | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 eat | cc |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 follow | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | obj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 mercy | case |
| 24 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eat | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | tooth | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the old Wolf | with rage; wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vow | past | tooth not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | tooth not said here | the Fawns | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fawn=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | present | tooth not said here | Wolf | without mercy | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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