The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 62

“Oh, no, friend Too-wháy-deh!” said the other; “for I saw this cliff falling down, and ran to hold it up.

Who acts: friend, cliff · What happens: say, see, fall down, run, hold up · To what, where: other, cliff, trail · 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 (friend, cliff), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 friend	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
7	Too	too	ADV	_	11 deh	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Too	punct
9	wháy	wháy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deh	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 deh	punct
11	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friend	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 deh	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 deh	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 saw	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 cliff	det
23	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 cliff	acl
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 falling	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ran	cc
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 hold	mark
30	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ran	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hold	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 hold	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	friend wháy deh	the other		tree rules
2	see in a quote	past	friend wháy deh = friend	this cliff		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cliff=Stimulus
3	fall down in a quote	gerund	this cliff not said here		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run in a quote	past	friend wháy deh = friend not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	hold up in a quote	to-infinitive	friend wháy deh = friend not said here	trail		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 62