The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 37
Now for many days the Coyote kept running to the east, and saw nothing of Pee-oo-ée-deh.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: keep, run, see · To what, where: nothing
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 kept | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Coyote | det |
| 6 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 east | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 east | det |
| 11 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 running | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 deh | case |
| 17 | Pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deh | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Pee | punct |
| 19 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deh | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ée | punct |
| 21 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deh | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 deh | punct |
| 23 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Coyote | now; day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the Coyote not said here | to the east result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to east=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the Coyote not said here | nothing of ée deh Pee oo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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