The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 35
The Coyote started off, still weeping; and the two wicked sisters went home rejoicing at their success.
Who acts: Coyote, two wicked sisters · What happens: start off, weep, go, rejoice · To what, where: success
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote, two wicked sisters), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 weeping | advmod |
| 7 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 started | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sisters | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sisters | nummod |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sisters | amod |
| 13 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 success | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 success | nmod:poss |
| 19 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rejoicing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the Coyote | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | the Coyote not said here | still | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the two wicked sisters | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rejoice | gerund | the two wicked sisters not said here | sisters's success | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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