The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 9
Once upon a time Too-wháy-shur-wée-deh, the Little-Blue-Fox,[105] was wandering near a pueblo, and chanced to come to the threshing-floors, where a great many crows were hopping.
Who acts: wháy, great many crows · What happens: wonder, chance, come, hop · To what, where: pueblo, threshing floors
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 (wháy, great many crows), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 wandering | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wandering | obl |
| 5 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 7 wháy | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Too | punct |
| 7 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wandering | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 shur | punct |
| 9 | shur | shur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wháy | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wée | punct |
| 11 | wée | wée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shur | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 deh | punct |
| 13 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wée | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fox | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fox | det |
| 16 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Blue | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Little | punct |
| 18 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Fox | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Blue | punct |
| 20 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wháy | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 105 | punct |
| 22 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 23 105 | punct |
| 23 | 105 | 105 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Fox | appos |
| 24 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 23 105 | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wandering | aux |
| 26 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 27 | near | near | ADP | _ | 29 pueblo | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 pueblo | det |
| 29 | pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wandering | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 chanced | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 chanced | cc |
| 32 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 wandering | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 come | mark |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 chanced | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 floors | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 floors | det |
| 37 | threshing | threshing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 floors | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 threshing | punct |
| 39 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 come | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 hopping | punct |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 hopping | advmod |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 crows | det |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 crows | amod |
| 44 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 crows | amod |
| 45 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 hopping | nsubj |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 hopping | aux |
| 47 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 floors | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | wháy and shur and wée and deh and the Blue Fox | a pueblo | time | once property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | chance | participle | wháy and shur and wée and deh and the Blue Fox not said here | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | wháy and shur and wée and deh and the Blue Fox not said here | the threshing floors | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to floor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hop | past · progressive | a great many crows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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