The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 42
So, without saying anything to the others, he walked over to the Coyote and said: “Coyote, are you Coyote-true, or somebody bewitched?”
Who acts: Man, you, somebody · What happens: say, walk over, be, bewitch · To what, where: anything, others, Coyote · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Man, you, somebody), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 saying | mark |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 walked | advcl |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 saying | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 others | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Coyote | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Coyote | det |
| 15 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Coyote | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Coyote | punct |
| 20 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 true | punct |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 true | cop |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 true | nsubj |
| 24 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 true | nsubj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Coyote | punct |
| 26 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 walked | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bewitched | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 bewitched | cc |
| 29 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 bewitched | nsubj |
| 30 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 walked | parataxis |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 bewitched | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 bewitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Man not said here | anything | the others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to other=Recipient | |||
| 2 | walk over | past | Man | to the Coyote; over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Man not said here | Coyote | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | Coyote nsubj; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bewitch in a quote | participle | somebody | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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