The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 69
She soon found their tracks leading away to the south, and began to run very swiftly in pursuit.
Who acts: tooth · What happens: find, lead away, begin, run · To what, where: tracks, pursuit
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 found | advcl |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 leading | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 south | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 south | det |
| 10 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leading | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 swiftly | advmod |
| 17 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 15 run | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pursuit | case |
| 19 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | tooth | Wolf's tracks | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic | |||
| 2 | lead away | gerund | tooth not said here | to the south; away property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to south=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | tooth not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | tooth not said here | pursuit | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Trajectory |
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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