🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 24

_” When he got home he took his mother from the bag and tried to set her up in the chimney-corner, always crying, “_Ai nana_, why don’t you sit up as before?”

Who acts: Coyote, you · What happens: get, take, try, set up, cry, not sit up · To what, where: mother, bag, nana, chimney corner, Ai nana · 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, 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

Pragmatics

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.

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