The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 10
“Hast thou never heard of the Coyote’s toothache, and who was the first medicine-man in all the world?
Who acts: thou · What happens: have, not hear, be · To what, where: first medicine man, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 2 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hast | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 toothache | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 toothache | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Coyote | case |
| 10 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 man | cc |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 man | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 man | amod |
| 17 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 man | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 medicine | punct |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 world | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 man | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not hear in a quote | past | thou | of the Coyote's toothache | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of toothache=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | the first medicine man | all world | who nsubj | tree rules |
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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