The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 17
“Now, friend Coyote, you get into your bag first, for you are so big and heavy that you cannot pull yourself up, and we will have to help you.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: get, be, not pull up, have, help · To what, where: Coyote, bag, yourself, you
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 (you, we), 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 | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Coyote | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Coyote | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Coyote | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 bag | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bag | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 get | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 big | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 big | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 big | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 big | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 big | advmod |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heavy | cc |
| 20 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 big | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 pull | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 pull | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pull | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 pull | advmod |
| 25 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 big | advcl |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 pull | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 pull | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 have | cc |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 help | mark |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 have | xcomp |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 help | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present | you | Coyote friend | your bag | first property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not pull up in a quote | can | you | yourself | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | future | we | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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