The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 70

There is a lake somewhere on the other side of this mountain; I will find it and get a drink, and then come back and hold up the cliff while you go.”

Who acts: lake, I, you · What happens: be, find, get, come back, hold up, go · To what, where: other side, lake, drink, 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 (lake, I, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lake	det
4	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 is	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mountain	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 mountain	det
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 find	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 drink	det
21	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 come	advmod
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 find	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hold	cc
28	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 hold	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cliff	det
31	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hold	obj
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 go	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 go	nsubj
34	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hold	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a lake		the other side of this mountain; there		somewhere property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	find	future	I	lake				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	get	infinitive	I not said here	a drink				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drink=Stimulus
4	come back	infinitive	I not said here			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold up	infinitive	I not said here	the cliff				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cliff=Theme
6	go	present	you					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 70