The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 8
And will you let me dance, too?” asked the Coyote of the _too-whit-lah-wid-deh_ crow (captain of the dance).
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, dance, ask · To what, where: me, 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 (you, me), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 let | cc |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 too | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 dance | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Coyote | det |
| 13 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 whit | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 whit | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 whit | punct |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 whit | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 too | punct |
| 19 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Coyote | nmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 whit | punct |
| 21 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whit | conj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 wid | punct |
| 23 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lah | appos |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 deh | punct |
| 25 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wid | conj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 crow | punct |
| 27 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whit | conj |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 captain | punct |
| 29 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 crow | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 dance | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dance | det |
| 32 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 captain | nmod |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 captain | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | infinitive | me not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the Coyote of the whit and lah and crow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent coyote=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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