The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 90
But the Wolf could run much faster, and soon she came to the boys, to whom she cried gruffly:
Who acts: Wolf, treachery · What happens: run, come, cry
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, treachery), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 run | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 run | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 faster | advmod |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 run | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 boys | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whom | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 whom | acl:relcl |
| 21 | gruffly | gruffly | ADV | _ | 20 cried | advmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | could | the Wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | treachery | to the boys; whom obl; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to boy=Initial_Location to whom=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | treachery | gruffly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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