The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 82
_” groaned the Coyote--“I have been wandering with the toothache ever since the world began.
Who acts: I, world · What happens: groan, wonder, begin · To what, where: Coyote · 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 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 (I, world), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 groaned | punct |
| 2 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 groaned | punct |
| 3 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Coyote | det |
| 5 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 groaned | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 wandering | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wandering | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wandering | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wandering | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 wandering | aux |
| 11 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 groaned | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 toothache | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 toothache | det |
| 14 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wandering | obl |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 toothache | advmod |
| 16 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 19 began | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wandering | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan in a quote | past | the Coyote | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coyote=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present · perfect · progressive | I | with the toothache | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the world | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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