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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

advmodpunctmarkadvclobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjadvmodcasedetoblccconjpunctpunctoblpunctcopnsubjnsubjpunctadvclpunctccnsubjparataxispunctpunctrootSoADV,PUNCTwithoutSCONJsayingVERBanythingPRONtoADPtheDETothersNOUN,PUNCThePRONwalkedVERBoverADVtoADPtheDETCoyotePROPNandCCONJsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTCoyoteNOUN,PUNCTareAUXyouPRONCoyotePROPN-PUNCTtrueADJ,PUNCTorCCONJsomebodyPRONbewitchedVERB?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_11 walkedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Sopunct
3withoutwithoutSCONJ_4 sayingmark
4sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 walkedadvcl
5anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind4 sayingobj
6totoADP_8 otherscase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 othersdet
8othersotherNOUNNumber=Plur4 sayingobl
9,,PUNCT_4 sayingpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 walkednsubj
11walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12overoverADV_11 walkedadvmod
13totoADP_15 Coyotecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Coyotedet
15CoyoteCoyotePROPNNumber=Sing11 walkedobl
16andandCCONJ_17 saidcc
17saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 walkedconj
18::PUNCT_20 Coyotepunct
19“"PUNCT_20 Coyotepunct
20CoyotecoyoteNOUNNumber=Sing17 saidobl
21,,PUNCT_26 truepunct
22arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 truecop
23youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs26 truensubj
24CoyoteCoyotePROPNNumber=Sing26 truensubj
25--PUNCT_24 Coyotepunct
26truetrueADJDegree=Pos11 walkedadvcl
27,,PUNCT_30 bewitchedpunct
28ororCCONJ_30 bewitchedcc
29somebodysomebodyPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind30 bewitchednsubj
30bewitchedbewitchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 walkedparataxis
31??PUNCT_30 bewitchedpunct
32”"PUNCT_30 bewitchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertgerundMan not said hereanythingthe othersvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to other=Recipient
2walk overpastManto the Coyote; over propertytree rules
3say speech: askpastMan not said hereCoyotevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4is in a quotepresentyouCoyote nsubj; true propertytree rules
5bewitch in a quoteparticiplesomebodyvn 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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