The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 38

But just as he came to the east and was turning to the north, up jumped a rabbit from under the ground in front of him, and shouted: “We do this to one another”; and jumped back in the hole and began to throw out dirt very hard.

Who acts: Coyote, We · What happens: come, turn, jump, shout, do, jump back · To what, where: east, north, rabbit, ground, this, one · 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 (Coyote, We), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 jumped	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 jumped	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 east	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 east	det
8	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turning	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turning	aux
11	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 north	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 north	det
14	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turning	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 jumped	punct
16	up	up	ADV	_	17 jumped	advmod
17	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rabbit	det
19	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jumped	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 ground	case
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jumped	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jumped	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 front	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shouted	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shouted	cc
30	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 jumped	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 do	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 do	punct
33	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
34	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 shouted	ccomp
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 do	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 one	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 do	obl
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	37 one	fixed
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 one	punct
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 jumped	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 jumped	cc
42	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 jumped	parataxis
43	back	back	ADV	_	42 jumped	advmod
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 hole	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 hole	det
46	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 jumped	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 began	cc
48	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 jumped	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 throw	mark
50	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 began	xcomp
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 throw	compound:prt
52	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 throw	obj
53	very	very	ADV	_	54 hard	advmod
54	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 throw	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Coyote			the east		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to east=Initial_Location
2	turn	past · progressive	Coyote not said here			the north		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to north=Trajectory
3	jump	past		a rabbit		the ground	in front of Coyote	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme from ground=Initial_Location in front=Trajectory
4	shout speech: express	past						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do in a quote	present	We	this	one			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
6	jump back	past				the hole		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Trajectory
7	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	throw out	to-infinitive		dirt			hard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 38

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 38