The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 13
And whichever shall come in first, he shall kill the other and eat him.”
Who acts: whichever, Coyote · What happens: come in, kill, eat · To what, where: other, Coyote
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 (whichever, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 come | cc |
| 2 | whichever | whichever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kill | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 kill | aux |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kill | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kill | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | shall | whichever | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | shall | Coyote | the other | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | Coyote not said here | Coyote | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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