The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 44
In their version, the Horned Toad, after being swallowed, kills the Coyote by lifting its spines.
Who acts: Horned Toad · What happens: swallow, kill, lift · To what, where: Horned Toad, Coyote, version, spines
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 (Horned Toad), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 version | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 version | nmod:poss |
| 3 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kills | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 version | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Toad | det |
| 6 | Horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Toad | amod |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 kills | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swallowed | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 swallowed | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Toad | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kills | punct |
| 13 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Coyote | det |
| 15 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kills | obj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 lifting | mark |
| 17 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 kills | advcl |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 spines | nmod:poss |
| 19 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lifting | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 kills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | gerund · passive | the Horned Toad not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | kill | present | the Horned Toad | the Coyote | Pueblos's version | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coyote=Theme | |||
| 3 | lift | gerund | the Horned Toad not said here | Toad's spines | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Theme |
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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