The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 45

And the Coyote sat down and began to comb his hair and to make himself pretty with face-paint.

Who acts: Coyote · What happens: sit down, begin, comb, make · To what, where: hair, pueblo

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Coyote	det
3	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 comb	mark
9	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comb	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 make	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 comb	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 make	obj
16	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	14 make	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 paint	case
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paint	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 face	punct
20	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Coyote			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the Coyote not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	comb	to-infinitive	the Coyote not said here	pueblo's hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	make	to-infinitive	the Coyote not said here	pueblo	with face paint; pretty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product

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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 45