The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 27
But when he was half-way home he stopped and struck himself, and said: “What a fool, truly!
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: be, stop, strike, say · To what, where: half way, Coyote · 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 when | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 way | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 way | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 when | parataxis |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stopped | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 struck | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stopped | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 fool | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 fool | punct |
| 19 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 21 fool | det |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fool | det |
| 21 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 truly | punct |
| 23 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 21 fool | advmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 when | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Coyote | half way | home property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stop | past | Coyote | half way not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector way=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | Coyote not said here | Coyote | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Coyote not said here | what fool ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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