The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 16

But as he came to a pool, half-way home, a flock of Afraids-of-the-Water[48] flew up at his very nose, and drove out his memory.

Who acts: Coyote, flock · What happens: come, fly up, drive out · To what, where: pool, nose, memory

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 (Coyote, flock), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	27 flew	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flew	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 way	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 half	punct
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pool	appos
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 way	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flock	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flock	det
15	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flew	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Afraids	case
17	Afraids	afraid	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flew	nsubj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Water	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 Water	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 of	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Water	det
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 the	punct
23	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Afraids	nmod
24	[	[	PUNCT	_	25 48	punct
25	48	48	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 Water	appos
26	]	]	PUNCT	_	25 48	punct
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 flew	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 nose	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 nose	nmod:poss
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 nose	advmod
32	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flew	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drove	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 drove	cc
35	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flew	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 drove	compound:prt
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 memory	nmod:poss
38	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drove	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Coyote		a pool		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pool=Initial_Location
2	fly up	past	a flock		Coyote's nose	Afraids of the Water nsubj	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nose=Location
3	drive out	past	a flock not said here	Coyote's memory			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme memory=Trajectory

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 Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 16