The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 30

When it was a good while, and he did not come back, the Coyote thought: “While he is gone, I will give myself some of the chickens.”

Who acts: hill, fox, Coyote · What happens: be, not come back, think, give · To what, where: good while, some, Coyote · 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 (hill, fox, Coyote), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 while	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 while	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 while	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 while	amod
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 while	parataxis
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Coyote	det
16	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	advcl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
20	While	while	SCONJ	_	23 gone	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gone	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	cop
23	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 give	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gone	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 give	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 give	iobj
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 give	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 chickens	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 chickens	det
32	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 some	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 while	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 while	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hill	a good while			tree rules
2	not come back	past · do-support	fox				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	the Coyote				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	fox			gone property	tree rules
5	give in a quote	future	the Coyote = coyote	some of the chickens	the Coyote = coyote		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient some=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 30