The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 2

As he went to walk one day near the edge of the wood, he heard the Blackbirds (the Indian name means “seeds of the prairie”) calling excitedly:

Who acts: Coyote, Indian name, Blackbirds · What happens: go, walk, hear, mean, call · To what, where: edge, Blackbirds, seeds · 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 (Coyote, Indian name, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl:unmarked
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 edge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edge	det
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Blackbirds	det
18	Blackbirds	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 heard	obj
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 name	det
21	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 name	amod
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Blackbirds	conj
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 seeds	punct
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 means	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 prairie	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 prairie	det
28	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seeds	nmod
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 seeds	punct
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 Blackbirds	punct
31	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heard	xcomp
32	excitedly	excitedly	ADV	_	31 calling	advmod
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Coyote					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	to-infinitive	Coyote not said here		the edge of the wood	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near edge=Trajectory
3	hear	past	Coyote	the Blackbirds				tree rules
4	mean	present	the Indian name	seeds of the prairie				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Topic
5	call	gerund	the Blackbirds not said here				excitedly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 2

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 2