The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 85
So the Wolf, who was growing angrier all the time, went hunting around till she found the trail, and set to running on it as fast as she could go.
Who acts: Wolf, world · What happens: grow, go, hunt around, find, set, run · To what, where: trail
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, world), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 growing | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 growing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 growing | aux |
| 7 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Wolf | conj |
| 8 | angrier | angry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 growing | xcomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 time | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 angrier | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wolf | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 went | xcomp |
| 15 | around | around | ADV | _ | 14 hunting | advmod |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 found | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunting | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trail | det |
| 20 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | conj |
| 24 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 25 running | mark |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 set | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 running | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 fast | advmod |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 running | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fast | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · progressive | the Wolf | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Wolf | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt around | gerund | the Wolf not said here | around property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past | world | the trail | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Topic | ||||
| 5 | set | infinitive | the Wolf not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | run | gerund | the Wolf not said here | trail | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | go | could | world | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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