The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 27
And they kept pelting him, all the time crying and chattering as if they, too, were suffering greatly from the hail.
Who acts: friends · What happens: keep, pelt, cry, chatter, suffer · To what, where: Coyote, hail
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 (friends), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 kept | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pelting | pelt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pelting | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chattering | cc |
| 12 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 crying | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 they | case |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 they | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 chattering | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 kept | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suffering | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 suffering | aux |
| 20 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 kept | conj |
| 21 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 20 suffering | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 hail | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hail | det |
| 24 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 suffering | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | friends = friend | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pelt | gerund | friends = friend not said here | Coyote | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | friends = friend not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | chatter | gerund | friends = friend not said here | as friends = friend | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | suffer | past · progressive | friends = friend not said here | the hail | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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