The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 65
Then the Coyote stood up and pushed against the cliff with his fore paws, very hard; and there they stood side by side.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: stand up, push, stand · To what, where: side
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pushed | cc |
| 7 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 cliff | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cliff | det |
| 10 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushed | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 paws | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 paws | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fore | fore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 paws | amod |
| 14 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pushed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hard | punct |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 hard | advmod |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pushed | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stood | cc |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 stood | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the Coyote | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | push | participle | the Coyote not said here | against the cliff; with fox's fore paws | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against cliff=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Coyote | side | there | by side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination |
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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