The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 36
The Coyote ran with all his legs; but the Rabbit jumped into his hole and threw out sand, as those who dig very fast.
Who acts: Coyote, Rabbit · What happens: run, jump, throw out, dig · To what, where: hole, sand
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 (Coyote, Rabbit), 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 Coyote | det |
| 2 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 legs | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 jumped | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 jumped | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rabbit | det |
| 11 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | nsubj |
| 12 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 hole | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hole | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threw | cc |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jumped | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 threw | compound:prt |
| 19 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 those | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 those | case |
| 22 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 threw | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 dig | nsubj |
| 24 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 those | acl:relcl |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 fast | advmod |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 dig | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Coyote | with Coyote's legs | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with leg=Material | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | the Rabbit | into Coyote's hole result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hole=Result | ||||
| 3 | throw out | past | the Rabbit not said here | sand | as those | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | |||
| 4 | dig | present | who nsubj; fast property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «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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