The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 32
But as soon as they were over a little hill, he turned aside and ran home, and the Coyote never knew if the Quails were caught or not.
Who acts: Quails, Rabbit, Coyote · What happens: be, turn, run, not know, catch · To what, where: little hill, Quails
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 (Quails, Rabbit, Coyote), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 turned | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 hill | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hill | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hill | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 hill | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hill | amod |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hill | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knew | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Coyote | det |
| 21 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 knew | advmod |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | parataxis |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 caught | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Quails | det |
| 26 | Quails | Quails | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 caught | aux:pass |
| 28 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 knew | advcl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 not | cc |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 caught | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Quails = quail | a little hill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Rabbit | aside, soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Rabbit not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | past | the Coyote | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | catch a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the Quails | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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