The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 70

In a little while she came to the Coyote, who was still walking up and down, howling so that one could hear him a mile away.

Who acts: tooth, Coyote, one · What happens: come, walk, howl, hear · To what, where: little, Coyote

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 (tooth, Coyote, one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 little	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Coyote	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Coyote	det
9	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walking	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 walking	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 walking	aux
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 walking	advmod
14	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 Coyote	conj
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 walking	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 down	cc
17	down	down	ADV	_	15 up	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 howling	punct
19	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 walking	advcl
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 hear	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hear	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 howling	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hear	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mile	det
27	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hear	obj
28	away	away	ADV	_	24 hear	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	tooth		a little		to the Coyote	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coyote=Initial_Location
2	walk	past · progressive	the Coyote			still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	howl	gerund	the Coyote not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	could	one	Coyote			a mile obj; away 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 Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 70