The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 67
“Friend Too-wháy-deh, it is long that I am holding up the cliff, and I am very tired and thirsty.
Who acts: wháy deh, Blue Fox · What happens: be, hold up · To what, where: cliff
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 (wháy deh, Blue 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 deh | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wháy | compound |
| 3 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 Friend | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 5 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deh | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wháy | punct |
| 7 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 long | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deh | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 long | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | cop |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 holding | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 holding | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 holding | aux |
| 15 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 long | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 holding | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cliff | det |
| 18 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holding | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tired | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tired | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 tired | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tired | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 tired | advmod |
| 24 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 long | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thirsty | cc |
| 26 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tired | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | wháy deh | side nsubj; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold up in a quote | present · progressive | the Blue Fox = fox | the cliff | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cliff=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Blue Fox = fox | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | the Blue Fox = fox not said here | 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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