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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 1

[17] The Coyote, you must know, is very stupid about some things; and in almost all Pueblo fairy stories is the victim of one joke or another.

Who acts: you · What happens: know, be · To what, where: 17, victim, Pueblo fairy stories · 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 Bear[17]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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

punctoblpunctdetnmod:unmarkedpunctnsubjauxpunctcopadvmodccompcasedetoblpunctcccaseadvmodnsubjcompoundcompoundoblcopdetoblcasenummodnmodccconjpunctroot[PUNCT17NUM]PUNCTTheDETCoyotePROPN,PUNCTyouPRONmustAUXknowVERB,PUNCTisAUXveryADVstupidADJaboutADPsomeDETthingsNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJinADPalmostADVallDETPuebloPROPNfairyNOUNstoriesNOUNisAUXtheDETvictimNOUNofADPoneNUMjokeNOUNorCCONJanotherDET.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1[[PUNCT_2 17punct
21717NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card9 knowobl
3]]PUNCT_2 17punct
4ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Coyotedet
5CoyoteCoyotePROPNNumber=Sing2 17nmod:unmarked
6,,PUNCT_2 17punct
7youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs9 knownsubj
8mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin9 knowaux
9knowknowVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
10,,PUNCT_13 stupidpunct
11isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 stupidcop
12veryveryADV_13 stupidadvmod
13stupidstupidADJDegree=Pos9 knowccomp
14aboutaboutADP_16 thingscase
15somesomeDETPronType=Ind16 thingsdet
16thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur13 stupidobl
17;;PUNCT_27 victimpunct
18andandCCONJ_27 victimcc
19ininADP_24 storiescase
20almostalmostADV_21 alladvmod
21allallDETPronType=Tot24 storiesnsubj
22PuebloPuebloPROPNNumber=Sing24 storiescompound
23fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing24 storiescompound
24storiesstoryNOUNNumber=Plur27 victimobl
25isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 victimcop
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 victimdet
27victimvictimNOUNNumber=Sing9 knowobl
28ofofADP_30 jokecase
29oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card30 jokenummod
30jokejokeNOUNNumber=Sing27 victimnmod
31ororCCONJ_32 anothercc
32anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind30 jokeconj
33..PUNCT_9 knowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowmustyou17 the Coyotevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2ispresentabout some things; stupid propertytree rules
3is apresentthe victimPueblo fairy storiesof one joketree 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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