The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 24
“Friend Too-wháy-deh, I make strange that they have not before now come for the chickens.
Who acts: fox, deh · What happens: make, have, not come · 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: who acts (fox, deh), 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 | _ | 7 deh | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wháy | compound |
| 3 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 Friend | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 5 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deh | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wháy | punct |
| 7 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deh | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | advcl |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 come | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 come | advmod |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 chickens | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chickens | det |
| 21 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | fox | wháy deh | strange property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | deh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | present | deh not said here | now | for the chickens; before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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