The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 26

When he found that she could not sit up any more, he vowed to follow the Crows and eat them all the rest of his life; and from that day to this he has been hunting them, and they are always at war.

Who acts: Coyote, nana, Crows · What happens: find, not sit up, vow, follow, eat, hunt · To what, where: Crows, war · 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, nana, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vowed	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sit	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sit	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sit	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sit	advmod
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 sit	compound:prt
10	any	any	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 sit	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 vowed	nsubj
14	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 follow	mark
16	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 vowed	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Crows	det
18	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 follow	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eat	cc
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 follow	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 eat	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 rest	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 life	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 life	nmod:poss
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rest	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 hunting	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 hunting	cc
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunting	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 this	case
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 day	nmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hunting	nsubj
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 hunting	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 hunting	aux
38	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 vowed	advcl
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hunting	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 war	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 war	cc
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 war	nsubj
43	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 war	cop
44	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	46 war	advmod
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 war	case
46	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunting	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Coyote					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not sit up	could	nana					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	vow	past	Coyote					tree rules
4	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	Coyote not said here	the Crows				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme
5	eat	present	Coyote not said here	Crows = crow			all rest of Coyote's life obj	tree rules
6	hunt	present · perfect · progressive	Coyote	Crows = crow		day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	is	present	Crows = crow		war		always property	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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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 26