The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 13
The stupid Coyote picked up a stick and struck her on the head, and put her in a bag, and hurried back to the dance with her.
Who acts: stupid Coyote · What happens: pick up, strike, put, hurry back · To what, where: stick, ahn, bag, dance
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Crows. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stupid 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 | 3 Coyote | det |
| 2 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Coyote | amod |
| 3 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stick | det |
| 7 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 struck | cc |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bag | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bag | det |
| 20 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hurried | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hurried | cc |
| 23 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 hurried | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 dance | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dance | det |
| 27 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hurried | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hurried | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the stupid Coyote | a stick | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the stupid Coyote not said here | ahn | on the head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on head=Patient | |||
| 3 | put | past | the stupid Coyote not said here | ahn | a bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bag=Destination | |||
| 4 | hurry back | past | the stupid Coyote not said here | the dance | with ahn | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to dance=Destination |
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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