The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 57
He was walking back and forth with one paw to his face, howling dreadfully with the toothache.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: walk back, howl
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walking | aux |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 walking | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 forth | cc |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 back | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 paw | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 paw | nummod |
| 9 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walking | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 howling | punct |
| 14 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walking | conj |
| 15 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 14 howling | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 toothache | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 toothache | det |
| 18 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 howling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk back | past · progressive | Coyote | with one paw; to Coyote's face result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to face=Result | ||||
| 2 | howl | gerund | Coyote not said here | with the toothache; dreadfully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with toothache=Theme |
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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