The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 18

The Coyote crawled into the bag, and all the Blackbirds taking hold of the rope, pulled with all their might till the bag was swung clear up under the branch.

Who acts: Coyote, Blackbirds · What happens: crawl, take, pull, swing, clear up, hold · To what, where: bag, hold, branch, rope

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Coyote	det
2	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crawled	nsubj
3	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 bag	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crawled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taking	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Blackbirds	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Blackbirds	det
11	Blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taking	nsubj
12	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crawled	advcl
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 rope	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rope	det
16	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pulled	punct
18	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 swung	advcl
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 might	mark
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 might	det:predet
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 might	nmod:poss
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 swung	aux
23	till	till	ADP	_	25 bag	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bag	det
25	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 might	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 swung	aux:pass
27	swung	swing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 taking	advcl
28	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 swung	xcomp
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 clear	compound:prt
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 branch	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 branch	det
32	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clear	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	crawl	past	the Coyote		the bag	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination
2	take	gerund	all Blackbirds	hold of the rope		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	pull	participle				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	swing	might · passive	all Blackbirds not said here			tree rules
5	clear up	infinitive	all Blackbirds not said here		the branch	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
6	hold			the rope		nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 18