The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 24
When the fourth day came, the Coyote arrived smiling, and threw down his blanket, and stood ready in only the dark blue _taparabo_,[59] saying: “But what is the use to run?
Who acts: fourth day, Coyote · What happens: come, arrive, smile, throw down, stand, say · To what, where: blanket, 59, dark blue taparabo, use · 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 (fourth day, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arrived | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | nsubj |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 arrived | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arrived | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 threw | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arrived | conj |
| 20 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stood | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 taparabo | case |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 taparabo | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 taparabo | det |
| 24 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 taparabo | amod |
| 25 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 taparabo | amod |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 blue | punct |
| 27 | taparabo | taparabo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obl |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 59 | punct |
| 30 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 31 59 | punct |
| 31 | 59 | 59 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 stood | obl |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 31 59 | punct |
| 33 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 stood | advcl |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 use | punct |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 use | punct |
| 36 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 use | cc |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 use | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 use | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 use | det |
| 40 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 saying | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 run | mark |
| 42 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 use | acl |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fourth day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the Coyote | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | the Coyote not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | throw down | past | the Coyote not said here | Coyote's blanket | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | the Coyote not said here | 59 | the dark blue taparabo | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in taparabo=Location | ||
| 6 | say speech: ask | gerund | the Coyote not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | the use | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | run in a quote | to-infinitive | the Coyote not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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