The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 9
Among them was a Mother-Antelope that had lost her fawn; and going to her the Coyote said:
Who acts: plains · What happens: be, lose, go, say · To what, where: Mother Antelope, Coyote, child · 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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plains), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 7 Antelope | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Antelope | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Antelope | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Antelope | det |
| 5 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Antelope | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mother | punct |
| 7 | Antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | aux |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Antelope | acl:relcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fawn | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 going | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Coyote | det |
| 19 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | xcomp |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | plains = plain | among a Mother Antelope | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect · passive | a Mother Antelope | child's fawn obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the Coyote | child | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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