The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 20
But at last the Crows burst out laughing, and said, “What do you bring in your bag?”
Who acts: last, you · What happens: burst out, laugh, say, bring in · To what, where: bag · 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, 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 (last, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 burst | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 burst | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Crows | det |
| 5 | Crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | nsubj |
| 6 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 burst | compound:prt |
| 8 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 burst | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burst | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 bring | obj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bring | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bring | compound:prt |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bag | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | past | last the Crows | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | last the Crows not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | last the Crows not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring in in a quote | present · do-support | you | your bag | What obj | 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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