The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 9
“I have noticed that the Wolf and the Deer are not on good terms, but never knew the reason.”
Who acts: DON, Deer · What happens: notice, not be, not know · To what, where: Wolf, good terms, reason
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 (DON, Deer), 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 | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | aux |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 Wolf | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 terms | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Deer | det |
| 10 | Deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 terms | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 terms | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 terms | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 terms | case |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 terms | amod |
| 15 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Wolf | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 knew | advmod |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reason | det |
| 21 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice in a quote | present · perfect | DON | the Wolf and good terms | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the Deer | good terms | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | past | DON not said here | the reason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
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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