The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 11
“That is very good,” said the Coyote, “and I would like to do so, too, if you will let me join you.”
Who acts: That, Coyote, you · What happens: be, say, like, do, let, join · To what, where: Coyote, you · 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 Blackbirds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Coyote | det |
| 10 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 like | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | aux |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 like | xcomp |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 too | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 too | punct |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 do | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 let | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 let | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 let | aux |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 like | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 join | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Coyote | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | the Coyote = coyote | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Coyote = coyote not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the Coyote = coyote | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | join in a quote | infinitive | the Coyote = coyote not said here | you | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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