The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 59
So he stood up on his hind feet and put his fore paws up against the cliff, and made many groans, and was as if much excited.
Who acts: fox · What happens: stand up, put, make, be · To what, where: hind feet, fore paws, cliff, many groans
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feet | amod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paws | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paws | compound |
| 13 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 cliff | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cliff | det |
| 17 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 groans | amod |
| 22 | groans | groan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 excited | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 excited | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 excited | cop |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 excited | mark |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 excited | mark |
| 28 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 excited | amod |
| 29 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | fox | fox's hind feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | fox not said here | fox's fore paws | the cliff | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme against cliff=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | past | fox not said here | many groans | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset groan=Product | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | excited property | tree rules |
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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