The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 5
“I am thinking, friend Too-wháy-deh, why some have large tails like you; but we have no tails.
Who acts: Coyote, some, we · What happens: think, have · To what, where: wháy deh, large tails, tails
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, some, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | conj |
| 7 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 11 deh | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Too | punct |
| 9 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deh | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wháy | punct |
| 11 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 have | advmod |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | parataxis |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tails | amod |
| 17 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tails | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 tails | det |
| 25 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · progressive | the Coyote = coyote | wháy deh | friend conj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | some | large tails | like you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | no tails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
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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