The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 11
The Rabbit made a sad face, and the Coyote said: “But come, friend Pee-oo-ée-deh, let us run a race.
Who acts: Rabbit, Coyote, us · What happens: make, say, come, let, run · To what, where: sad face, friend, us, race · 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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, Coyote, us), 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 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 face | det |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 face | amod |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Coyote | det |
| 10 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 friend | punct |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | Pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 oo | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pee | punct |
| 20 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 friend | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ée | punct |
| 22 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 oo | appos |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 deh | punct |
| 24 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ée | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | parataxis |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 race | det |
| 30 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Rabbit | a sad face | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Coyote | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | friend and Pee oo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a race | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory |
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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