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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 22

Coming, the Coyote said: “Friend Locust, show that song again; for I got scared, and the song was driven out of me.”

Who acts: Coyote · What happens: come, say, friend, show, get, drive out · To what, where: Locust, song · 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 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

advclpunctdetnsubjpunctpunctccompobjpunctparataxismarkobjadvmodpunctmarknsubjconjxcomppunctccdetnsubj:passaux:passconjcasecaseoblpunctpunctrootComingVERB,PUNCTtheDETCoyoteNOUNsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTFriendVERBLocustPROPN,PUNCTshowVERBthatSCONJsongNOUNagainADV;PUNCTforSCONJIPRONgotVERBscaredADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETsongNOUNwasAUXdrivenVERBoutADPofADPmePRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ComingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 saidadvcl
2,,PUNCT_1 Comingpunct
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Coyotedet
4CoyotecoyoteNOUNNumber=Sing5 saidnsubj
5saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6::PUNCT_8 Friendpunct
7“"PUNCT_8 Friendpunct
8FriendfriendVERBVerbForm=Inf5 saidccomp
9LocustLocustPROPNNumber=Sing8 Friendobj
10,,PUNCT_11 showpunct
11showshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 Friendparataxis
12thatthatSCONJ_13 songmark
13songsongNOUNNumber=Sing11 showobj
14againagainADV_11 showadvmod
15;;PUNCT_18 gotpunct
16forforSCONJ_18 gotmark
17IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 gotnsubj
18gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 saidconj
19scaredscaredADJDegree=Pos18 gotxcomp
20,,PUNCT_25 drivenpunct
21andandCCONJ_25 drivencc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 songdet
23songsongNOUNNumber=Sing25 drivennsubj:pass
24wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 drivenaux:pass
25drivendriveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 gotconj
26outoutADP_28 mecase
27ofofADP_28 mecase
28meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 drivenobl
29..PUNCT_18 gotpunct
30”"PUNCT_18 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comegerundthe Coyote not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2say speech: assertpastthe Coyotevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3friend in a quoteinfinitiveLocusttree rules
4show in a quotepresentsongagainvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Recipient
5get in a quotepastthe Coyote = coyotescared propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6drive out in a quotepast · passivethe songout the Coyote = coyotevn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination

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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