The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 23
The Coyote then saw that they had played him a trick, and started home, crying “_Ai nana!
Who acts: Coyote, Crows · What happens: see, play, start, cry · To what, where: Coyote · 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 (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 | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 played | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 played | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 played | aux |
| 8 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 played | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trick | det |
| 11 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 played | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 started | cc |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 started | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 started | advcl |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 nana | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 nana | punct |
| 20 | Ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nana | compound |
| 21 | nana | nana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crying | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Coyote | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | play | past · perfect | Crows = crow | Coyote | a trick obl:unmarked | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | start | past | the Coyote not said here | home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the Coyote not said here | Ai nana conj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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