The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 7
“It is true, _ah-bóo_,”[57] said the Coyote, not knowing that the Rabbit laughed in his heart.
Who acts: current, 57, Rabbit · What happens: be, say, not know, laugh · 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 (current, 57, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bóo | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 bóo | punct |
| 7 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 bóo | discourse |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bóo | punct |
| 9 | bóo | bóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | parataxis |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 bóo | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 57 | punct |
| 14 | 57 | 57 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 57 | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Coyote | det |
| 18 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knowing | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 knowing | advmod |
| 21 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 laughed | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Rabbit | det |
| 24 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 laughed | nsubj |
| 25 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 knowing | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laughed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | current | bóo parataxis; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | 57 | the Coyote nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | 57 not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | laugh | past | the Rabbit | in Coyote's heart | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in heart=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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