The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 37
And he crawled weeping and groaning from the bag, and began to lick his bruises.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: crawl, weep, groan, begin, lick, bruise · To what, where: bag, bruises
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), 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 crawled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crawled | nsubj |
| 3 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 crawled | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 groaning | cc |
| 6 | groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 weeping | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bag | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 groaning | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crawled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lick | mark |
| 14 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bruises | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lick | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | Coyote | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | Coyote not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | groan | gerund | Coyote not said here | the bag | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Coyote not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | lick | to-infinitive | Coyote not said here | Coyote's bruises | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bruise=Source | ||||
| 6 | bruise | Coyote | nom bruise «state transitive»: poss=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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