The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 9
“Oh, friend Coyote,” they replied, “we are making ourselves ready, for soon there will be a very hard hail-storm, and we do not wish to be pelted to death.
Who acts: friend, we · What happens: reply, make, be, not wish, pelt · To what, where: ourselves, hard hail storm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friend, we), 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 | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 friend | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 making | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 making | aux |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 replied | advcl |
| 15 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 making | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 storm | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 be | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 be | expl |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 storm | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 storm | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 hard | advmod |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 storm | amod |
| 26 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 storm | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 hail | punct |
| 28 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wish | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wish | cc |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 wish | nsubj |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wish | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 wish | advmod |
| 34 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 pelted | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 pelted | aux:pass |
| 37 | pelted | pelt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 wish | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 death | case |
| 39 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 pelted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | friend | friends = friend nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · progressive | we | ourselves | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Product | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | friend not said here | a hard hail storm | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | we | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pelt not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | we not said here | to death | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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