The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 39
In the morning the Indians spied this Coyote sitting and watching them at a little distance, and they set their dogs on him.
Who acts: Indians, Coyote · What happens: spy, sit, watch, set · To what, where: Coyote, Indians, dogs
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 (Indians, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spied | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indians | det |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 spied | nsubj |
| 6 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spied | obj |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Coyote | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watching | cc |
| 11 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sitting | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watching | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distance | amod |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watching | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spied | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past | the Indians | this Coyote | morning | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coyote=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | this Coyote not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | this Coyote not said here | Indians = indian | at a little distance | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | set | past | Indians = indian | Indians's dogs | on Coyote | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on he=Destination |
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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