The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 29
So the Little-Blue-Fox started toward the house; but getting behind a small hill, he ran away with fast feet.
Who acts: Little, fox · What happens: start, get, run away · To what, where: small hill
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, fox), 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 | _ | 8 started | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Little | det |
| 3 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 started | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Blue | punct |
| 5 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Little | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fox | punct |
| 7 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Little | conj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 getting | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 getting | cc |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 started | advcl |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hill | amod |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 getting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 started | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 ran | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feet | amod |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ran | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the Little and Fox | toward the house | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | the Little and Fox not said here | a small hill | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | fox | with fast feet; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with foot=Material |
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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