The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 12
All summer they worked together in the field, hoeing down the weeds with stone hoes and letting in water now and then from the irrigating-ditch.
Who acts: summer · What happens: work together, hoe, let · To what, where: weeds, water
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 (summer), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 summer | det |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 4 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 worked | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hoeing | punct |
| 10 | hoeing | hoe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 worked | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 weeds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 weeds | det |
| 13 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hoeing | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hoes | case |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hoes | compound |
| 16 | hoes | hoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hoeing | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 letting | cc |
| 18 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hoeing | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 letting | obl |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 letting | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ditch | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 ditch | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 ditch | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ditch | det |
| 26 | irrigating | irrigating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ditch | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 irrigating | punct |
| 28 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 now | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work together | past | all summer | in the field; bear nsubj; together property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hoe | gerund | all summer not said here | the weeds | with stone hoes | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent down weed=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | let | gerund | all summer not said here | water | now; then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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