The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 26
“It is truly very bad, friend Coyote,” they answered, “but you are bigger and stronger than we, and ought to endure it.”
Who acts: storm, friends, you · What happens: be, answer, endure · To what, where: storm · 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 (storm, friends, 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 | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bad | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | cop |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Coyote | punct |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Coyote | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bad | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bigger | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bigger | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 bigger | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bigger | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bigger | cop |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 answered | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stronger | cc |
| 21 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 bigger | conj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 we | case |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 bigger | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 endure | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 endure | cc |
| 26 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 endure | aux |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 endure | mark |
| 28 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bad | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 endure | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | storm | Coyote friend obl; bad, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | friends = friend | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | than we; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | endure in a quote | ought | storm not said here | storm | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Circumstance |
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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