The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 1

ALL the animals with which the Tée-wahn are familiar--the buffalo (which they used to hunt on the vast plains to the eastward), the bear, deer, antelope, mountain lion, badger, wild turkey, fox, eagle, crow, buzzard, rabbit, and so on--appear in their legends and fairy tales, as well as in their religious ceremonials and beliefs.

Who acts: animals · What happens: be, use, hunt, appear · To what, where: buffalo, vast plains, legends

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals), 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	ALL	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 animals	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animals	det
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 familiar	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	9 wahn	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wahn	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wahn	det
7	Tée	Tée	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wahn	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Tée	punct
9	wahn	wahn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 familiar	cop
11	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 buffalo	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 buffalo	det
14	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 familiar	conj
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 used	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 used	nsubj
18	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 buffalo	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hunt	mark
20	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 used	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 plains	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plains	det
23	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plains	amod
24	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hunt	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 eastward	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eastward	det
27	eastward	eastward	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plains	nmod
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bear	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bear	det
31	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 familiar	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 deer	punct
33	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bear	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 antelope	punct
35	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bear	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lion	punct
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lion	compound
38	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bear	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 badger	punct
40	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lion	appos
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 turkey	punct
42	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 turkey	amod
43	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 badger	appos
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 fox	punct
45	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 turkey	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 eagle	punct
47	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 turkey	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 crow	punct
49	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eagle	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 buzzard	punct
51	buzzard	buzzard	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eagle	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 rabbit	punct
53	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bear	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 appear	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 appear	cc
56	so	so	ADV	_	59 appear	advmod
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 appear	advmod
58	--	--	PUNCT	_	57 on	punct
59	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 familiar	parataxis
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 legends	case
61	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 legends	nmod:poss
62	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 appear	obl
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 tales	cc
64	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 tales	compound
65	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 legends	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 ceremonials	punct
67	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	73 ceremonials	cc
68	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	67 as	fixed
69	as	as	ADP	_	67 as	fixed
70	in	in	ADP	_	73 ceremonials	case
71	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 ceremonials	nmod:poss
72	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 ceremonials	amod
73	ceremonials	ceremonial	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 legends	conj
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 beliefs	cc
75	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 legends	conj
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 familiar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	all animals with the Tée wahn all animals with the Tée wahn all animals			the buffalo conj; the bear and deer and antelope and mountain lion and rabbit parataxis; familiar property	tree rules
2	use	past	animals = animal	the buffalo			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	hunt	to-infinitive	animals = animal not said here		the vast plains to the eastward		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location
4	appear	present			animals's legends and fairy tales as animals's religious ceremonials and beliefs		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in legend=Location

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 Coyote, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 1