The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 108
The Coyote smoked the smoke-prayer, and started off with his nose to the ground, trying to find her tracks.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: smoke, start off, try, find · To what, where: smoke prayer, tracks
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 (Coyote), 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 | 2 Coyote | det |
| 2 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smoked | nsubj |
| 3 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prayer | det |
| 5 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prayer | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 smoke | punct |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smoked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 started | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 started | cc |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smoked | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 started | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 nose | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nose | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 started | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 started | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trying | punct |
| 19 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 started | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 trying | xcomp |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smoked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoke | past | the Coyote | the smoke prayer | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent prayer=Source | ||||
| 2 | start off | past | the Coyote not said here | with Coyote's nose; to the ground | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with nose=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | the Coyote not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Coyote not said here | nose's tracks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=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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