The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 45
At this the Coyote nodded his head affirmatively, while tears rolled from his eyes.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: nod, roll · To what, where: head, tears, eyes
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Coyote | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Coyote | det |
| 4 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nodded | nsubj |
| 5 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nodded | obj |
| 8 | affirmatively | affirmatively | ADV | _ | 5 nodded | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tears | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 tears | mark |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 nodded | obl |
| 12 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tears | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rolled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the Coyote at this | Coyote's head | tears obl; affirmatively property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | roll | participle | tears not said here | Coyote's eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory |
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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