The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 4
The Coyote, coming near and hearing, thought: “Now that is the very song I need to put my _óo-un_ to sleep.”
Who acts: Coyote, that, song · What happens: come, think, be, need, put, sleep · To what, where: song, óo un · 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, that, song), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Coyote | det |
| 2 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Coyote | acl |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 coming | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hearing | cc |
| 7 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Coyote | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 song | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 song | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 song | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 song | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 song | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 song | advmod |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 need | nsubj |
| 19 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 song | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 put | mark |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 need | xcomp |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 un | nmod:poss |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 un | punct |
| 24 | óo | óo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 un | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 óo | punct |
| 26 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sleep | mark |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 put | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 song | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | the Coyote not said here | hearing conj; near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Coyote | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | the song | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | need in a quote | present | the Coyote = coyote | the song not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the song not said here | my óo un | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent un=Goal | ||||
| 6 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | the song not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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