The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 39
When the master heard what had been, he killed the Coyote, and thanked Big-ears, and gave him much grass.
Who acts: master · What happens: hear, have, kill, thank, give · To what, where: Coyote, Big ears, much grass, master
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 (master), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 had | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 killed | nsubj |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Coyote | det |
| 12 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thanked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thanked | cc |
| 15 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | conj |
| 16 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ears | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Big | punct |
| 18 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thanked | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grass | amod |
| 24 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the master | what obj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | kill | past | master | the Coyote | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coyote=Theme | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past | master not said here | Big ears | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | master not said here | much grass | master | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grass=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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