The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 1
ONCE upon a time a Coyote lived near an open wood.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: live · To what, where: open wood
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 Blackbirds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote), 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 | ONCE | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ONCE | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Coyote | det |
| 6 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wood | amod |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Coyote | a open wood | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near wood=Location |
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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