The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 58
Just as the Little-Blue-Fox came to some high cliffs, he looked back and saw the Coyote coming over a hill.
Who acts: Blue Fox, fox, Coyote · What happens: come, look back, see · To what, where: high cliffs, Coyote, 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 (Blue Fox, 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Fox | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fox | det |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Blue | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Little | punct |
| 6 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Fox | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Blue | punct |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 cliffs | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 cliffs | det |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cliffs | amod |
| 13 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Coyote | det |
| 21 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 hill | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hill | det |
| 25 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Blue Fox | some high cliffs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cliff=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look back | past | fox | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | fox not said here | the Coyote | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the Coyote not said here | a hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location |
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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