The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Feathered Barbers, sentence 7
When the Coyote woke up he was ashamed, and wished to punish those who had made him _pelado_; and he ran around to see if he could find the tracks of an enemy.
Who acts: Coyote, crowd · What happens: wake up, be, wish, punish, make, run around · To what, where: those, crowd, tracks
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, crowd), 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 woke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 woke | compound:prt |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ashamed | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ashamed | cop |
| 8 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woke | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wished | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wished | cc |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 punish | mark |
| 13 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wished | xcomp |
| 14 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 punish | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 made | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 those | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 pelado | punct |
| 20 | pelado | pelado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 pelado | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ran | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 26 | around | around | ADV | _ | 25 ran | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ran | advcl |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 find | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 find | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 find | aux |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 see | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tracks | det |
| 34 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 find | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 enemy | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 enemy | det |
| 37 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tracks | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the Coyote | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | crowd | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | the Coyote not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | punish not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Coyote not said here | those | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect | crowd | pelado obl; who nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | ||||
| 6 | run around | past | crowd | around property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | crowd not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | crowd | the tracks of a enemy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic |
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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