The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 33
So Old-Man-Coyote came out, and was very glad, and began to sharpen his knife.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: come out, be, begin, sharpen · To what, where: knife
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Man | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Old | punct |
| 4 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Coyote | nmod:poss |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Man | punct |
| 6 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 glad | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glad | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 glad | advmod |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sharpen | mark |
| 18 | sharpen | sharpen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 knife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sharpen | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Old Man's Coyote | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Old Man's Coyote not said here | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Old Man's Coyote not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sharpen | to-infinitive | Old Man's Coyote not said here | man's knife | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=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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