The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 2
Too-wháy-deh, the Coyote,[104] or little prairie wolf, figures in countless stories, and always to his own disadvantage.
To what, where: wháy deh
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: 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 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 5 deh | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Too | punct |
| 3 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deh | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wháy | punct |
| 5 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Coyote | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 deh | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 104 | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 104 | punct |
| 11 | 104 | 104 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Coyote | appos |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 104 | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 wolf | cc |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wolf | amod |
| 15 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wolf | compound |
| 16 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Coyote | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 figures | punct |
| 18 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Coyote | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 stories | case |
| 20 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stories | amod |
| 21 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 figures | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 disadvantage | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 disadvantage | cc |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 disadvantage | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 disadvantage | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 disadvantage | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 disadvantage | amod |
| 28 | disadvantage | disadvantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deh | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deh | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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