The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 72
“Say, old man! have you seen two Fawns running away?”
Who acts: two Fawns · What happens: see, run away · To what, where: old man
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 (two 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 | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 2 | Say | say | INTJ | _ | 5 man | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Fawns | nummod |
| 11 | Fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obj |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Fawns | acl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 running | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · perfect · passive | old man | you nsubj; two Fawns obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run away in a quote | gerund | two Fawns not said here | away property | 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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