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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 17 | punct |
| 2 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 know | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 17 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Coyote | det |
| 5 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 17 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 17 | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stupid | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stupid | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 stupid | advmod |
| 13 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 know | ccomp |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 things | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stupid | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 victim | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 victim | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 stories | case |
| 20 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 all | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 stories | nsubj |
| 22 | Pueblo | Pueblo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stories | compound |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stories | compound |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 victim | obl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 victim | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 victim | det |
| 27 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 joke | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 joke | nummod |
| 30 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 victim | nmod |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 another | cc |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 joke | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | you | 17 the Coyote | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | about some things; stupid property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the victim | Pueblo fairy stories | of one joke | 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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