The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 54
Very long the Coyote waited; and at last, being tired, went up on the hill--but there was no one there.
Who acts: long Coyote · What happens: wait, be, go up · To what, where: last, hill
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 (long 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Coyote | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Coyote | det |
| 4 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | nsubj |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tired | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tired | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tired | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 last | punct |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 tired | cop |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 waited | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 was | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 there | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 was | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the long Coyote | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the long Coyote not said here | last | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go up | past | the long Coyote not said here | the hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | be | past | the long Coyote not said here | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «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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