The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 21
“Well,” said the Coyote, “if _that_ is so, I will not eat you, but will help you watch the chickens.”
Who acts: Coyote, _, you · What happens: say, be, not eat, help, watch · To what, where: you, chickens · 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, _, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Coyote | det |
| 7 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eat | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 eat | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | mark |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 if | punct |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 _ | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 so | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 so | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 eat | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 so | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 eat | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 eat | advmod |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 eat | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 help | cc |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 eat | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 help | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chickens | det |
| 29 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 watch | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Coyote | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that _ | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not eat in a quote | future | the Coyote = coyote | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | future | the Coyote = coyote not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | watch in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the chickens | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
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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