The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 16
Many times the Coyote asked him, with soft words; but Big-ears would not, and went his way.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: ask, go · To what, where: Burro, way
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears. 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Coyote | det |
| 4 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 words | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asked | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 would | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 would | cc |
| 13 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ears | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Big | punct |
| 15 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 would | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 would | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Coyote | Burro | time | with soft words | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | go | past | the Coyote not said here | Burro's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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