The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 14
So the Coyote started running for home, and got a large bag and a lasso, and came back to the Blackbirds, who were waiting.
Who acts: Coyote, Blackbirds · What happens: start, run, get, come back, wait · To what, where: large bag, Blackbirds
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 started | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 running | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bag | amod |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lasso | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lasso | det |
| 16 | lasso | lasso | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bag | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Blackbirds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Blackbirds | det |
| 23 | Blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 waiting | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 waiting | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 waiting | aux |
| 27 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 Blackbirds | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the Coyote | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the Coyote not said here | for home | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for home=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | get | past | the Coyote not said here | a large bag and a lasso | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bag=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come back | past | the Coyote not said here | the Blackbirds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to blackbird=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | wait | past · progressive | the Blackbirds | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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