The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 48
So the Coyote rose and followed him to the camp; and the medicine-man fed and cared for him as the party journeyed toward Isleta.
Who acts: Coyote, medicine man, party · What happens: rise, follow, feed, care, journey · To what, where: Coyote, camp, Isleta
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, medicine man, party), 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 | _ | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 followed | cc |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 followed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 camp | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 camp | det |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 medicine | punct |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fed | nsubj |
| 17 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cared | cc |
| 19 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fed | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cared | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 journeyed | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 party | det |
| 24 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 journeyed | nsubj |
| 25 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cared | advcl |
| 26 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 27 Isleta | case |
| 27 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 journeyed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Coyote | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | the Coyote not said here | Coyote | the camp | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to camp=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | feed | past | the medicine man | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | care | past | the medicine man not said here | for Man | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | journey | past | the party | Isleta | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward isleta=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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