The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 86

But _he_ said: “My ears are stronger”; for he was a coward, and would not give to pull on his pretty tail, of which he is proud.

Who acts: Coyote, _, ears · What happens: _, say, be, not give, pull · 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 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 (Coyote, _, ears), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 _	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 _	nsubj
4	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 stronger	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 stronger	punct
8	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ears	nmod:poss
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stronger	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stronger	cop
11	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 said	parataxis
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 stronger	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 coward	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 coward	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 coward	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 coward	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 coward	det
18	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 give	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 give	advmod
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 coward	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 pull	mark
25	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 give	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 tail	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tail	nmod:poss
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tail	amod
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pull	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 proud	punct
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 proud	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 proud	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 proud	cop
35	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 give	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	_		Coyote		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	_		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	My ears	strong property	tree rules
4	is	past	Coyote	for a coward	tree rules
5	not give	would			tree rules
6	pull	to-infinitive		on Coyote's pretty tail	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on tail=Theme
7	is	present	Coyote	which obl; proud property	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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 86

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 86