The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 16
You are the cause of my being chased by the dogs and people, and now I will pay you.
Who acts: You, dogs, I · What happens: be, chase, pay · To what, where: cause, my, you
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 (You, dogs, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cause | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cause | det |
| 4 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 chased | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 chased | aux:pass |
| 8 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cause | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 dogs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dogs | det |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chased | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 people | cc |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dogs | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pay | cc |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 pay | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pay | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 pay | aux |
| 19 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cause | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 pay | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | the cause | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chase | gerund · passive | the dogs and people | my | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | future | I | you | now | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |
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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