The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 42
But he did not know it was the brother of Pee-oo-ée-deh, who had come out to the east to wait for him.
Who acts: Coyote, east, oo ée deh · What happens: not know, be, come out, wait · To what, where: brother · 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, east, oo ée deh), 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 | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brother | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 deh | case |
| 11 | Pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deh | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pee | punct |
| 13 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deh | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ée | punct |
| 15 | ée | ée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deh | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ée | punct |
| 17 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 deh | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 east | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 east | det |
| 25 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wait | mark |
| 27 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wait | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Coyote | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | east | the brother | of oo ée deh Pee | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come out | past · perfect | oo ée deh Pee | to the east; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wait | to-infinitive | oo ée deh Pee not said here | for Coyote | vn exist-47.1 «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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