The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 18
“No, Coyote-friend,” answered the Little-Blue-Fox, “_don’t_ eat me up!
Who acts: Coyote friend · What happens: answer, eat up · To what, where: Blue Fox, Coyote friend · 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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote friend), 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 | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 friend | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Coyote | punct |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fox | det |
| 11 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Blue | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Little | punct |
| 13 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Fox | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Blue | punct |
| 15 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eat | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 eat | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 eat | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | discourse |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 eat | compound:prt |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | Coyote friend | the Blue Fox | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | eat up in a quote | present · do-support | Coyote friend not said here | Coyote friend = friend | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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