The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 39
And ever since, even to this day, he has been following them to eat them, and that is why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are always at war.
Who acts: Coyote, that · What happens: follow, eat, be · To what, where: Blackbirds, war
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, that), 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 | _ | 13 following | cc |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 since | advmod |
| 3 | since | since | ADV | _ | 13 following | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 day | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 since | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 following | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 following | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 following | aux |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 following | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 following | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 why | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 why | cc |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 why | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 why | cop |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 war | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Coyote | det |
| 24 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 war | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Blackbirds | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Blackbirds | det |
| 27 | Blackbirds | Blackbird | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 Coyote | conj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 war | cop |
| 29 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 31 war | advmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 war | case |
| 31 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eat | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 following | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · perfect · progressive | Coyote | Blackbirds = blackbird | ever | since property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Coyote not said here | Blackbirds = blackbird | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the Coyote and the Blackbirds | war | always property | tree rules |
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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