The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 35
Then the Old-Man-Coyote, thinking to please her, went into the Burro’s mouth to get the liver; but Big-ears shut his teeth on Too-wháy-deh’s head, and jumped up and ran home.
Who acts: Old Man Coyote, Big ears · What happens: think, please, go, get, shut, jump up · To what, where: Coyote, mouth, liver, teeth, head
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 (Old Man Coyote, Big ears), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 Coyote | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Coyote | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Old | punct |
| 5 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Coyote | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Man | punct |
| 7 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Coyote | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 please | mark |
| 11 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thinking | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 please | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Coyote | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 mouth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Burro | det |
| 17 | Burro | Burro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Burro | case |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 liver | det |
| 23 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 shut | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 shut | cc |
| 26 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ears | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Big | punct |
| 28 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shut | nsubj |
| 29 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 31 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shut | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 head | case |
| 33 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 37 deh | advmod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Too | punct |
| 35 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 deh | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 wháy | punct |
| 37 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 head | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 deh | case |
| 39 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shut | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 jumped | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 jumped | cc |
| 42 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | parataxis |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 jumped | compound:prt |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 ran | cc |
| 45 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 jumped | conj |
| 46 | home | home | ADV | _ | 45 ran | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the Old Man Coyote not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | please | to-infinitive | the Old Man Coyote not said here | Coyote | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the Old Man Coyote | the Burro's mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the Old Man Coyote not said here | the liver | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liver=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | shut | past | Big ears | Burro's teeth | wháy deh's head | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||
| 6 | jump up | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | run | past | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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