The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 12
At that, the Locust showed him the song, and he sang with her until he knew how.
Who acts: Locust, Coyote · What happens: show, sing, know · To what, where: song, Coyote, that
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Locust, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 showed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Locust | det |
| 5 | Locust | Locust | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 showed | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sang | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sang | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 showed | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sang | obl |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 knew | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sang | advcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 knew | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the Locust | the song | Coyote | that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient song=Topic | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Coyote | with Locust | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Coyote | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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