The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 72
But soon the Coyote was very tired and thirsty, for he held up the cliff with all his might.
Who acts: Coyote, moon · 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 (Coyote, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 tired | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 tired | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Coyote | det |
| 4 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tired | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tired | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 tired | advmod |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thirsty | cc |
| 9 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tired | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 held | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tired | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 held | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cliff | det |
| 16 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 might | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 might | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 might | nmod:poss |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 held | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Coyote | soon, tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Coyote not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hold up | past | moon | the cliff | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cliff=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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