The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 50
“He will not dare to give me another trick,” thought the Coyote.
Who acts: fox, Coyote · What happens: not dare, not give, think · To what, where: trick, 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 (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 dare | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dare | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dare | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dare | advmod |
| 5 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dare | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 trick | det |
| 10 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dare | punct |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Coyote | det |
| 15 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare in a quote | future | fox | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not give in a quote | to-infinitive | fox not said here | another trick | the Coyote = coyote | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trick=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the Coyote | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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