The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 41
The Coyote was there, howling with pain; but all the other sick were at home.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: be, howl · To what, where: home
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Coyote | det |
| 2 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 howling | punct |
| 6 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 there | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pain | case |
| 8 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 howling | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sick | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sick | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 sick | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sick | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sick | amod |
| 14 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 there | parataxis |
| 15 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sick | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 were | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Coyote | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | howl | gerund | the Coyote not said here | with pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | the Coyote not said here | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
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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