The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 45

The fierce dogs ran out to tear him; but when they came near they only sniffed at him, and went away without hurting him.

Who acts: fierce dogs, dogs · What happens: run out, tear, come, sniff, go away, hurt · To what, where: COYOTE

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce dogs, dogs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tear	mark
7	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ran	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tear	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sniffed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 sniffed	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sniffed	advcl
14	near	near	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sniffed	nsubj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 sniffed	advmod
17	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sniffed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 hurting	mark
25	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 went	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hurting	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run out	past	the fierce dogs			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tear	to-infinitive	the fierce dogs not said here	COYOTE		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme
3	come	past	dogs = dog		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sniff	past	dogs = dog		at COYOTE	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	go away	past	the fierce dogs not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hurt	gerund	the fierce dogs not said here	COYOTE		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 45

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 45