The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 7
You have already heard how the Coyote fared at the hands of the fun-loving Bear, and of the Crows and the Blackbirds.
Who acts: You, Coyote · What happens: hear, fare · To what, where: hands · 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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 fared | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Coyote | det |
| 7 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fared | nsubj |
| 8 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hands | det |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fared | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Bear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Bear | det |
| 14 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loving | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fun | punct |
| 16 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Bear | amod |
| 17 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Crows | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Crows | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Crows | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Crows | det |
| 22 | Crows | Crow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 fared | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Blackbirds | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Blackbirds | det |
| 25 | Blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Crows | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | You | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fare | past | the Coyote | the hands of the loving Bear | of the Crows and the Blackbirds | 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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