The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 93
So they hunted about until they found a buckskin thong and some large stones; and the Little-Blue-Fox tied the stones to the Coyote’s neck, the Coyote holding his chin up, to help.
Who acts: stones, Little, Coyote · What happens: hunt, find, tie, hold up, help · To what, where: buckskin thong, stones, chin
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 (stones, Little, Coyote), 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 hunted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hunted | nsubj |
| 3 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 hunted | advmod |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 found | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunted | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thong | det |
| 9 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thong | compound |
| 10 | thong | thong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stones | cc |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 stones | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stones | amod |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thong | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 tied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tied | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Little | det |
| 18 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tied | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Blue | punct |
| 20 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Little | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Fox | punct |
| 22 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Little | conj |
| 23 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunted | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stones | det |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tied | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Coyote | det |
| 28 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Coyote | case |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tied | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Coyote | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Coyote | det |
| 33 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 neck | conj |
| 34 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 Coyote | acl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 chin | nmod:poss |
| 36 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 holding | obj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 holding | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 help | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 help | mark |
| 40 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tied | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | stones = stone | about property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | stones = stone | a buckskin thong and some large stones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thong=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tie | past | the Little and Fox | the stones | to the Coyote's neck and the Coyote | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient to neck=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | hold up | gerund | the Coyote not said here | fox's chin | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chin=Theme | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | the Little and Fox not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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