The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 67
Presently they saw the camp-fire of the Navajos, and waiting till the Coyote called they gave the enemy-yell and then attacked.
Who acts: boys, Coyote · What happens: see, wait, call, give, attack, fire · To what, where: camp fire, enemy yell, Navajos · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boys, 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fire | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 camp | punct |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Navajos | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Navajos | det |
| 10 | Navajos | Navajos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fire | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waiting | cc |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 called | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Coyote | det |
| 16 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | nsubj |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 waiting | advcl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 yell | det |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 yell | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 enemy | punct |
| 23 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 attacked | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 attacked | advmod |
| 26 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | boys = boy | the camp fire of the Navajos | presently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | boys = boy not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | past | the Coyote | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give | past | boys = boy | the enemy yell | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attack | past | the Coyote not said here | then | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fire | the Navajos | nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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