The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 64
In time, while you wait there, you will hear a Coyote howling across the cañon.
Who acts: you, Coyote · What happens: wait, hear, howl · To what, where: time, Coyote, cañon
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 wait | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hear | aux |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Coyote | det |
| 13 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obj |
| 14 | howling | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Coyote | acl |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 cañon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cañon | det |
| 17 | cañon | cañon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 howling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | you | time not said here | there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | future | you | a Coyote | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer coyote=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | howl | gerund | a Coyote not said here | the cañon | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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