The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 26
Still she did not reply; and the Coyote, being angry, swallowed the stuffed skin, sand, spoon, and all, and started homeward, saying: “_Now_ I think I have that song in me!”
Who acts: answer, Coyote · What happens: not reply, be, swallow, stuff, start, say · To what, where: stuffed skin, homeward, 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 (answer, 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 reply | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reply | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reply | advmod |
| 5 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 swallowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swallowed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Coyote | det |
| 9 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 swallowed | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 angry | punct |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 angry | cop |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Coyote | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Coyote | punct |
| 14 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skin | det |
| 16 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 skin | amod |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swallowed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sand | punct |
| 19 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skin | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spoon | punct |
| 21 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skin | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 all | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 all | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 reply | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 started | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 started | cc |
| 27 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | conj |
| 28 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 started | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saying | punct |
| 30 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 started | advcl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 think | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 think | punct |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 Now | punct |
| 34 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 think | advmod |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 Now | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 think | nsubj |
| 37 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | parataxis |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 think | ccomp |
| 40 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 song | det |
| 41 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 have | obl |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 reply | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: express | past · do-support | answer | still | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the Coyote not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swallow | past | the Coyote | the stuffed skin and sand and spoon | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stuff | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | start | past | answer not said here | homeward | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | answer not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other in a quote | present | answer | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | have in a quote | present | answer | that song | in answer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient |
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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