The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 42
“And now, brother, there is a tail to you,” turning to the tall, gray-haired Felipe[16]; and clearing his throat, Felipe begins about the Coyote and the Bear.
Who acts: tail, brother, Felipe · What happens: be, turn, clear, begin · To what, where: brother, you, throat
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 (tail, brother, Felipe), 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 | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brother | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brother | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brother | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tail | det |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 is | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 brother | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Felipe | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Felipe | det |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Felipe | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tall | punct |
| 20 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 haired | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 gray | punct |
| 22 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Felipe | amod |
| 23 | Felipe | Felipe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 turning | obl |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 25 16 | punct |
| 25 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 Felipe | appos |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 16 | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 clearing | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 clearing | cc |
| 29 | clearing | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 turning | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 throat | nmod:poss |
| 31 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 clearing | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 begins | punct |
| 33 | Felipe | Felipe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 begins | nsubj |
| 34 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 clearing | parataxis |
| 35 | about | about | ADP | _ | 37 Coyote | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Coyote | det |
| 37 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 begins | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Bear | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Bear | det |
| 40 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Coyote | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a tail | brother not said here | you | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme to you=Attribute | ||
| 2 | turn | gerund | brother not said here | to the tall haired Felipe result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to felipe=Result | ||||
| 3 | clear | gerund | brother not said here | tail's throat | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent throat=Source | ||||
| 4 | begin | present | Felipe | about the Coyote and the Bear | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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