The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 19
So the Coyote let that Quail go, and dug and dug till he caught another.
Who acts: Coyote, Quail, friend · What happens: let, go, dig, catch · To what, where: another
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: who acts (Coyote, Quail, friend), 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 | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 6 | Quail | Quail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dug | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dug | cc |
| 10 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dug | cc |
| 12 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dug | conj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 caught | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caught | nsubj |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dug | ccomp |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 caught | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the Coyote | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | present | Quail | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dig | past | the Coyote not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dig | past | the Coyote not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | catch | past | friend | another | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=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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