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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

detnsubjpunctacladvmodccconjpunctpunctpunctadvmodnsubjcopdetadvmodccompnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompnmod:posspunctcompoundpunctobjpunctmarkadvclpunctpunctrootTheDETCoyotePROPN,PUNCTcomingVERBnearADVandCCONJhearingNOUN,PUNCTthoughtVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTNowADVthatPRONisAUXtheDETveryADVsongNOUNIPRONneedVERBtoPARTputVERBmyPRON_PUNCTóoNOUN-PUNCTunNOUN_PUNCTtoPARTsleepVERB.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Coyotedet
2CoyoteCoyotePROPNNumber=Sing9 thoughtnsubj
3,,PUNCT_4 comingpunct
4comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger2 Coyoteacl
5nearnearADV_4 comingadvmod
6andandCCONJ_7 hearingcc
7hearinghearingNOUNNumber=Sing4 comingconj
8,,PUNCT_2 Coyotepunct
9thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10::PUNCT_9 thoughtpunct
11“"PUNCT_17 songpunct
12NownowADVPronType=Dem17 songadvmod
13thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem17 songnsubj
14isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 songcop
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 songdet
16veryveryADV_17 songadvmod
17songsongNOUNNumber=Sing9 thoughtccomp
18IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs19 neednsubj
19needneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 songacl:relcl
20totoPART_21 putmark
21putputVERBVerbForm=Inf19 needxcomp
22mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 unnmod:poss
23__PUNCT_26 unpunct
24óoóoNOUNNumber=Sing26 uncompound
25--PUNCT_24 óopunct
26ununNOUNNumber=Sing21 putobj
27__PUNCT_21 putpunct
28totoPART_29 sleepmark
29sleepsleepVERBVerbForm=Inf21 putadvcl
30..PUNCT_17 songpunct
31”"PUNCT_17 songpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comegerundthe Coyote not said herehearing conj; near propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2think speech: otherpastthe Coyotevn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3is a in a quotepresentthatthe songnowtree rules
4need in a quotepresentthe Coyote = coyotethe song not said heretree rules
5put not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivethe song not said heremy óo unvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent un=Goal
6sleep in a quoteto-infinitivethe song not said herevn 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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