The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 97
So he took the Coyote by the back of the neck, swaying him back and forth as he counted.
Who acts: other · What happens: take, sway, count · To what, where: Coyote, other
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 (other), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Coyote | det |
| 5 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 back | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neck | det |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swaying | punct |
| 13 | swaying | sway | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swaying | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 forth | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forth | cc |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 swaying | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 counted | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 counted | nsubj |
| 20 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forth | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | other | the Coyote | by the back of the neck | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument coyote=Destination | |||
| 2 | sway | gerund | other not said here | other | forth property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 3 | count | past | other | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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