The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 11
The Coyote agreed, and when the time came they plowed the place with a sharp stick and planted their potatoes.
Who acts: Coyote, time, bear · What happens: agree, come, plow, plant · To what, where: place, potatoes
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 (Coyote, time, bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Coyote | det |
| 2 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 plowed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plowed | cc |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plowed | advcl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 plowed | nsubj |
| 11 | plowed | plow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plowed | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 stick | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stick | det |
| 16 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stick | amod |
| 17 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plowed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 planted | cc |
| 19 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plowed | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 potatoes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 planted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Coyote | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | plow | past | bear | the place | with a sharp stick | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent place=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | plant | past | bear not said here | bear's potatoes | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient |
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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