The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 82

I just bought a big cheese[108] from a shepherd to share with you; but when I went to drink, it slipped out of my hands into the water.

Who acts: I, cheese · What happens: buy, share, go, drink, slip out · To what, where: big cheese, hands, water

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 (I, cheese), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bought	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 bought	advmod
3	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cheese	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cheese	amod
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obj
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	8 108	punct
8	108	108	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 cheese	appos
9	]	]	PUNCT	_	8 108	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 shepherd	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shepherd	det
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 share	mark
14	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bought	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 share	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 slipped	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 slipped	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 went	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 slipped	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 drink	mark
23	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slipped	nsubj
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 hands	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hands	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hands	nmod:poss
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 slipped	obl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	buy	past	I	a big cheese		from a shepherd	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme from shepherd=Source
2	share	to-infinitive	I not said here			with you	tree rules
3	go	past	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drink	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	slip out	past	cheese	my hands	the water		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 82