The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 16
The Coyote joined the dance, with the bag on his back, and sang as the Crows did:
Who acts: Coyote, Crows · What happens: join, sing, do · To what, where: 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 (Coyote, Crows), 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 | 3 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dance | det |
| 5 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joined | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bag | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bag | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joined | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bag | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sang | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sang | cc |
| 15 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 joined | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Crows | det |
| 18 | Crows | Crow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sang | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | the Coyote | the dance | with the bag on Coyote's back | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dance=Patient with bag=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the Coyote not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past | the Crows | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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