The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 127

Any one who has ever seen the Coyote, or any other of the wolf or fox tribe, must have noticed the alert forward pricking of the ears.

Who acts: one, alert · What happens: see, notice, prick · To what, where: Coyote, alert

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, alert), 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	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noticed	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 seen	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 one	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Coyote	det
8	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 other	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 other	cc
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 one	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wolf	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolf	det
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 other	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 tribe	cc
17	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tribe	compound
18	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wolf	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 noticed	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 noticed	aux
22	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 alert	det
24	alert	alert	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noticed	obj
25	forward	forward	ADV	_	24 alert	advmod
26	pricking	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 alert	acl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 ears	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ears	det
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pricking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	any one	the Coyote	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coyote=Stimulus
2	notice	must · perfect	any one	the alert			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer alert=Stimulus
3	prick	gerund	the alert not said here			of the ears	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 127

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 127