The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 91

And Desiderio, clearing his throat and making a new cigarette with great impressiveness, begins: “My sons, do you know why the Coyote and the Crows are always at war?

Who acts: Desiderio, sons, Coyote · What happens: clear, make, begin, know, be · To what, where: throat, new cigarette, war · 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 (Desiderio, sons, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 clearing	cc
2	Desiderio	Desiderio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clearing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clearing	punct
4	clearing	clear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 begins	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 throat	nmod:poss
6	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clearing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 making	cc
8	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 clearing	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cigarette	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cigarette	amod
11	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 making	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 impressiveness	case
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 impressiveness	amod
14	impressiveness	impressiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 making	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begins	punct
16	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
19	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sons	nmod:poss
20	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 know	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sons	punct
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begins	conj
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	34 war	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Coyote	det
27	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 war	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Crows	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Crows	det
30	Crows	Crow	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 Coyote	conj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 war	cop
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 war	advmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 war	case
34	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 know	ccomp
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clear	gerund	Desiderio	Desiderio's throat			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent throat=Source
2	make	gerund	Desiderio not said here	a new cigarette		with great impressiveness	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cigarette=Product
3	begin	present					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	know in a quote	present · do-support	My sons			you nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present	the Coyote and the Crows		war	always 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 Antelope Boy, sentence 91

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 91