The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 1
THE coyote, one summer day, having taken a bath in the river, lay down in the hot sand to dry himself.
What happens: take, lay down, dry · To what, where: coyote, river, hot sand, himself
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Feathered Barbers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 coyote | det |
| 2 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coyote | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bath | det |
| 11 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sand | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sand | det |
| 20 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sand | amod |
| 21 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 dry | mark |
| 23 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lay | advcl |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 dry | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund · perfect · passive | the coyote and one summer day | the river | a bath obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme bath=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | the hot sand | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sand=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dry | to-infinitive | himself = he | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient himself=Result |
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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