The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 40
But the Coyote did not run; and when the dogs came to him they merely sniffed and came away without hurting him--though every one knows that the dog and the Coyote have been enemies almost ever since the world began.
Who acts: Coyote, dogs, one, dog · What happens: not run, come, sniff, come away, hurt, know · To what, where: Coyote, enemies
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, dogs, one, dog), 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 | _ | 6 run | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 run | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 run | advmod |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sniffed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sniffed | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dogs | det |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sniffed | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sniffed | nsubj |
| 16 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 17 sniffed | advmod |
| 17 | sniffed | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sniffed | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 hurting | mark |
| 22 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hurting | obj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 knows | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 knows | mark |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 knows | nsubj |
| 28 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 began | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dog | det |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 began | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Coyote | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Coyote | det |
| 34 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dog | conj |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 enemies | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 enemies | cop |
| 37 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 dog | nmod |
| 38 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 39 ever | advmod |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 began | advmod |
| 40 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 43 began | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 world | det |
| 42 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 began | nsubj |
| 43 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 knows | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run | past · do-support | the Coyote | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the dogs | Coyote | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sniff | past | dogs = dog | merely property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come away | past | dogs = dog not said here | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hurt | gerund | dogs = dog not said here | Coyote | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | know | present | every one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is a | present · perfect | enemies | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | begin | past | the dog and the Coyote | ever | the world nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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