The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 36
The Old-Woman-Coyote followed running, crying: “_Ay, Nana!
Who acts: Old Woman · What happens: follow, run, cry · To what, where: Ay Nana
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 Woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woman | det |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Woman | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Old | punct |
| 4 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Coyote | punct |
| 6 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | nsubj |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 followed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crying | punct |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 running | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nana | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nana | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ay | punct |
| 14 | Ay | Ay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Nana | compound |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ay | punct |
| 16 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the Old Woman | Ay Nana | Coyote nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | the Old Woman not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | the Old Woman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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