The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 76
But when he looked around and saw that the cliff did not fall, he was very angry, and swore to eat Too-wháy-shur-wée-deh the very minute he should catch him.
Who acts: moon, cliff, wháy · What happens: look around, see, not fall, be, swear, eat · To what, where: fox · 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 (moon, cliff, wháy), 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 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 looked | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 fall | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cliff | det |
| 10 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fall | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fall | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fall | advmod |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 angry | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 angry | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 angry | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 angry | advmod |
| 18 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fall | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swore | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 swore | cc |
| 21 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 eat | mark |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 swore | xcomp |
| 24 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 23 eat | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Too | punct |
| 26 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deh | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 wháy | punct |
| 28 | shur | shur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deh | nsubj |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 wée | punct |
| 30 | wée | wée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deh | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 deh | punct |
| 32 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eat | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 minute | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 minute | advmod |
| 35 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deh | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 catch | nsubj |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 catch | aux |
| 38 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 minute | acl:relcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 catch | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | moon | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | not fall | past · do-support | the cliff | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | moon | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swear | past | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | deh | wháy | minute | shur nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | catch | should | moon | fox | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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