The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 107

Then the people went with an offering to the Coyote, whose nose is sharpest in all the world; and besought him to try to find the Moon.

Who acts: people · What happens: go, sharp, beseech, try, find · To what, where: nose, world, Coyote, Moon

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 offering	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 offering	det
7	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Coyote	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Coyote	det
10	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sharpest	punct
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sharpest	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sharpest	aux:pass
15	sharpest	sharp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Coyote	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 world	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sharpest	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 besought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 besought	cc
22	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 besought	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 try	mark
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 besought	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 try	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Moon	det
29	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the people			then	with a offering; to the Coyote	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coyote=Initial_Location
2	sharp	present · passive		nose	all world			tree rules
3	beseech	past	the people not said here	Coyote				tree rules
4	try	to-infinitive	the people not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	the people not said here	the Moon				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Topic

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 Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 107