The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 71
The Coyote agreed, and the Little-Blue-Fox ran away over the mountain till he came to the lake, just as the moon was rising.
Who acts: Coyote, Blue Fox, fox, moon · What happens: agree, run away, come, rise · To what, where: mountain, lake
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, Blue Fox, fox, moon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Coyote | det |
| 2 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fox | det |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Blue | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Little | punct |
| 9 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fox | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Blue | punct |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 lake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lake | det |
| 22 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rising | punct |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 rising | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 rising | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 moon | det |
| 27 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rising | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 rising | aux |
| 29 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Coyote | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run away | past | the Blue Fox | the mountain | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | past | fox | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | rise | past · progressive | the moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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