The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 17
He went looking around, turning over the stones and peeping in the grass; but he could not find the song anywhere.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: go, look around, turn, peep, not find · To what, where: stones, song
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 looking | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turning | punct |
| 6 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 looking | conj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 stones | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stones | det |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turning | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 peeping | cc |
| 11 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 turning | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 grass | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peeping | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 find | advmod |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 song | det |
| 22 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 find | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Coyote | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look around | gerund | Coyote not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | Coyote not said here | the stones | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | peep | gerund | Coyote not said here | in the grass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in grass=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not find | could | Coyote | the song | anywhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=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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