The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 36
The other made as if greatly excited, and answered: “No, friend Coyote!
What happens: make, answer · To what, where: friend Coyote
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 made | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | amod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 excited | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 excited | mark |
| 6 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 7 excited | advmod |
| 7 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Coyote | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Coyote | punct |
| 13 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 Coyote | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 No | punct |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Coyote | compound |
| 16 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | friend Coyote | excited property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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