The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 19
I am here guarding these chickens, for there is a wedding in yonder house, which is my master’s, and these chickens are for the wedding-dinner.
Who acts: I, wedding, chickens · What happens: guard, be · To what, where: chickens
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 (I, wedding, chickens), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 guarding | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 guarding | aux |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 guarding | advmod |
| 4 | guarding | guard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 chickens | det |
| 6 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guarding | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 is | case |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 guarding | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wedding | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 15 house | advmod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wedding | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 master | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 master | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 master | cop |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wedding | conj |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 master | case |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dinner | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dinner | cc |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 chickens | det |
| 25 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 dinner | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 dinner | cop |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 dinner | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dinner | det |
| 29 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dinner | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 wedding | punct |
| 31 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guarding | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guarding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | present · progressive | I | this chickens | here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | does | present | a wedding in house and my master | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a wedding in house and my master | 's my master; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | this chickens | for the wedding dinner | 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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