The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 41
“Well,” said the Little-Blue-Fox, “I am called for that dance,[107] and very soon they will come for me.
Who acts: Blue Fox, Coyote · What happens: say, call, come · To what, where: Blue Fox · 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 (Blue 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 | “ | " | 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fox | det |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Blue | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Little | punct |
| 9 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fox | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Blue | punct |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 called | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 dance | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 dance | det |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 107 | punct |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 107 | punct |
| 22 | 107 | 107 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 called | parataxis |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 107 | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 come | cc |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 soon | advmod |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 come | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 called | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 come | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Blue Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | the Blue Fox = fox | for that dance; 107 parataxis | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for dance=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | Coyote | for the Blue Fox = fox; soon 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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