The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 75
So he began to let go of the cliff, slowly, slowly--until he held it only with his finger-nails; and then he made a great jump away backward, and ran as hard as he could to a hill.
Who acts: moon · What happens: begin, let, go, hold, make, run · To what, where: lake, great jump
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cliff | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cliff | det |
| 9 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slowly | punct |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 let | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slowly | punct |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 slowly | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 held | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | nsubj |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | obj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 nails | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 nails | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nails | nmod:poss |
| 22 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nails | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 finger | punct |
| 24 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 held | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 made | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 made | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 jump | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 jump | amod |
| 32 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 made | advmod |
| 34 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 33 away | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ran | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ran | cc |
| 37 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 hard | advmod |
| 39 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ran | xcomp |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 could | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 could | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 hard | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 hill | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 hill | det |
| 45 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 could | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | moon | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | moon not said here | slowly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | moon not said here | of the cliff | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of cliff=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | moon | lake | with moon's finger nails | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | past | moon | a great jump | then | away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Product | ||
| 6 | run | past | moon not said here | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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