The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 34

So they kept it up until they were too tired to throw any more; and as for the Coyote, he was so bruised and sore that he could hardly move.

Who acts: hearts, Coyote · What happens: keep up, be, throw, bruise, move · To what, where: hold, Coyote

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 (hearts, Coyote), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 kept	compound:prt
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 tired	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tired	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tired	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 tired	advmod
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 throw	mark
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tired	advcl
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 more	det
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 throw	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 bruised	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bruised	cc
17	as	as	ADV	_	25 bruised	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 Coyote	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Coyote	det
20	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 as	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bruised	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bruised	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bruised	aux:pass
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 bruised	advmod
25	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kept	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sore	cc
27	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bruised	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 move	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 move	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 move	aux
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	32 move	advmod
32	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sore	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep up	past	hearts = heart	hold		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	past	hearts = heart		tired property	tree rules
3	throw	to-infinitive	hearts = heart not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	bruise	past · passive		Coyote		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	move	could	Coyote		hardly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 34