The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 77
Running on the trail, he came to the lake; and there the Little-Blue-Fox was lying on the bank, whining as if greatly excited.
Who acts: moon, Blue Fox · What happens: run, come, there, lie, whine · To what, where: trail, lake, bank
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, Blue Fox), 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 | Running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 trail | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trail | det |
| 4 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Running | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Running | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 there | cc |
| 13 | there | there | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fox | det |
| 15 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Blue | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Little | punct |
| 17 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Fox | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Blue | punct |
| 19 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lying | aux |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 there | ccomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bank | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bank | det |
| 24 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 whining | punct |
| 26 | whining | whine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 lying | conj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 excited | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 excited | mark |
| 29 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 30 excited | advmod |
| 30 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 whining | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | moon not said here | the trail | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trail=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | moon | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | there | past | moon not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | the Blue Fox | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | ||||
| 5 | whine | gerund | the Blue Fox not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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