The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 35
Then I will tell you why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are enemies--for once they were very good friends in the old days.
Who acts: I, Blackbirds · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: Coyote, you, enemies · 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 War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Blackbirds), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tell | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 Coyote | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 enemies | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Blackbirds | det |
| 11 | Blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 enemies | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 enemies | cop |
| 13 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Coyote | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 friends | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 friends | case |
| 16 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 21 friends | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 friends | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 friends | amod |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | iobj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 days | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 days | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 days | amod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 friends | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | the Coyote and enemies | you | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient friend=Topic | ||
| 2 | is a | present | the Blackbirds | enemies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Blackbirds = blackbird | day | for good friends | 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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