The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 49
The last night they camped at the big barranca, just below the village; and here the medicine-man told his companions the story of the bewitchment,--for the Coyote had already told him,--and they were all greatly astonished, and very sad to learn that this poor Coyote was their handsome friend, K’oo-ah-máh-koo-hóo-oo-aí-deh.
Who acts: Indians, medicine man, Coyote, poor Coyote, máh koo · What happens: camp, tell, be, learn, deh · To what, where: big barranca, story, companions, Man, handsome friend · 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 (Indians, medicine man, Coyote, poor 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camped | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 camped | nsubj |
| 5 | camped | camp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 barranca | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 barranca | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 barranca | amod |
| 9 | barranca | barranca | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 village | punct |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 village | advmod |
| 12 | below | below | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camped | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 here | cc |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 told | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 19 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 medicine | punct |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 camped | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 companions | nmod:poss |
| 24 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 told | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 bewitchment | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bewitchment | det |
| 29 | bewitchment | bewitchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 story | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 told | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 told | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Coyote | det |
| 34 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 told | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 told | aux |
| 36 | already | already | ADV | _ | 37 told | advmod |
| 37 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 told | ccomp |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 told | iobj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 told | punct |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 astonished | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 astonished | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 astonished | nsubj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 astonished | cop |
| 44 | all | all | ADV | _ | 46 astonished | advmod |
| 45 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 46 astonished | advmod |
| 46 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 told | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 sad | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 sad | cc |
| 49 | very | very | ADV | _ | 50 sad | advmod |
| 50 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 astonished | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 learn | mark |
| 52 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 sad | csubj |
| 53 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 60 friend | mark |
| 54 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 56 Coyote | nsubj |
| 55 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 Coyote | amod |
| 56 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 friend | nsubj |
| 57 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 friend | cop |
| 58 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 60 friend | nmod:poss |
| 59 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 friend | amod |
| 60 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 learn | advcl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 K’oo | punct |
| 62 | K’oo | K'oo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 astonished | obl |
| 63 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 62 K’oo | punct |
| 64 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 76 deh | discourse |
| 65 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 64 ah | punct |
| 66 | máh | máh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 koo | compound |
| 67 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 66 máh | punct |
| 68 | koo | koo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 deh | nsubj |
| 69 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 70 hóo | punct |
| 70 | hóo | hóo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 deh | nsubj |
| 71 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 72 oo | punct |
| 72 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 hóo | appos |
| 73 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 72 oo | punct |
| 74 | aí | aí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 deh | compound |
| 75 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 74 aí | punct |
| 76 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 K’oo | appos |
| 77 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 camped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | camp | past | Indians = indian | the big barranca | night | below the village | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at barranca=Location | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the medicine man | the story of the bewitchment | Man's companions | here | tree rules | ||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | the Coyote | Man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Indians = indian | K’oo obl; all, astonished, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Indians = indian not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is a | past | poor Coyote this | Indians's handsome friend | Indians = indian nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 8 | deh | máh koo | hóo nsubj | tree rules |
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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