The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 53
Just as it came near enough the Coyote made a wonderful jump and put his head squarely through the middle of it--and there, instead of the gaunt Coyote, stood the Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob, handsome and well and strong as ever.
Who acts: hoop, Coyote, gaunt Coyote · What happens: come, make, put, stand · To what, where: wonderful jump, head, middle, Young Man
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 (hoop, Coyote, gaunt 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 near | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 jump | det |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 jump | amod |
| 12 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | squarely | squarely | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 middle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 middle | det |
| 20 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 middle | nmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 stood | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stood | cc |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 stood | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Coyote | punct |
| 27 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 31 Coyote | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 instead | fixed |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Coyote | det |
| 30 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Coyote | amod |
| 31 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 stood | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Coyote | punct |
| 33 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Man | det |
| 35 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Man | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Young | punct |
| 37 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 stood | obj |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Who | punct |
| 39 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 Man | acl:relcl |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Embraces | punct |
| 41 | Embraces | embrace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Who | appos |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 Corncob | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 Corncob | det |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 a | punct |
| 45 | Corncob | corncob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Embraces | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 handsome | punct |
| 47 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Corncob | amod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 well | cc |
| 49 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 handsome | conj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 strong | cc |
| 51 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 handsome | conj |
| 52 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 ever | case |
| 53 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 51 strong | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hoop | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the Coyote | a wonderful jump | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Product | ||||
| 3 | put | past | the Coyote not said here | Coyote's head | the middle of hoop | squarely property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through middle=Destination | ||
| 4 | stand | past | the gaunt Coyote | the Young Man | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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