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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 20

But while he was yet far, the Locust saw him, so she shed her skin, leaving a dry husk, as snakes do, and filled it with sand.

Who acts: Coyote, Locust, snakes · What happens: be, see, shed, leave, do, fill · To what, where: Coyote, skin, dry husk, husk

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, Locust, snakes), 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

ccmarknsubjcopadvmodadvclpunctdetnsubjobjpunctadvmodnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctadvcldetamodobjpunctmarknsubjconjpunctccconjobjcaseoblpunctrootButCCONJwhileSCONJhePRONwasAUXyetADVfarADV,PUNCTtheDETLocustPROPNsawVERBhimPRON,PUNCTsoADVshePRONshedVERBherPRONskinNOUN,PUNCTleavingVERBaDETdryADJhuskNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJsnakesNOUNdoVERB,PUNCTandCCONJfilledVERBitPRONwithADPsandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_10 sawcc
2whilewhileSCONJ_6 farmark
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 farnsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 farcop
5yetyetADV_6 faradvmod
6farfarADVDegree=Pos10 sawadvcl
7,,PUNCT_6 farpunct
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Locustdet
9LocustLocustPROPNNumber=Sing10 sawnsubj
10sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 sawobj
12,,PUNCT_15 shedpunct
13sosoADV_15 shedadvmod
14sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 shednsubj
15shedshedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 sawconj
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 skinnmod:poss
17skinskinNOUNNumber=Sing15 shedobj
18,,PUNCT_19 leavingpunct
19leavingleaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 shedadvcl
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 huskdet
21drydryADJDegree=Pos22 huskamod
22huskhuskNOUNNumber=Sing19 leavingobj
23,,PUNCT_26 dopunct
24asasSCONJ_26 domark
25snakessnakeNOUNNumber=Plur26 donsubj
26dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 leavingconj
27,,PUNCT_29 filledpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 filledcc
29filledfillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 sawconj
30ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 filledobj
31withwithADP_32 sandcase
32sandsandNOUNNumber=Sing29 filledobl
33..PUNCT_10 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastCoyoteyetfar propertytree rules
2seepastthe LocustCoyotevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3shedpastLocustLocust's skinvn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source
4leavegerundLocust not said herea dry huskvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husk=Theme
5dopresentsnakesvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6fillpastthe Locust not said herehuskwith sandvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with sand=Instrument

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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