The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 53
So the Little-Blue-Fox went up the hill; and as soon as he was out of sight, he began to run for his life.
Who acts: Blue Fox, fox · What happens: go up, be, begin, run · To what, where: hill, sight
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 (Blue Fox, 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fox | det |
| 3 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Blue | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Little | punct |
| 5 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Fox | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Blue | punct |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 went | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 began | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 sight | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sight | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sight | cop |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 sight | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sight | case |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sight | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 began | nsubj |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 run | mark |
| 26 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 run | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the Blue Fox | the hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | fox | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | fox | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | fox not said here | for fox's life | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary |
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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