The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 13
When harvest-time came, the Coyote went and cut off all the potato-tops at the ground and carried them home, and afterward the Bear scratched out the potatoes from the ground with his big claws and took them to his house.
Who acts: harvest time, Coyote, Bear · What happens: come, go, cut off, carry, scratch out, take · To what, where: potato tops, bear, potatoes, ground, house
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 (harvest time, Coyote, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 harvest | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 went | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tops | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tops | det |
| 15 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tops | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 potato | punct |
| 17 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cut | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tops | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 scratched | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 scratched | cc |
| 27 | afterward | afterward | SCONJ | _ | 30 scratched | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Bear | det |
| 29 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 scratched | nsubj |
| 30 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 scratched | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 potatoes | det |
| 33 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 scratched | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 ground | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ground | det |
| 36 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 scratched | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 claws | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 claws | nmod:poss |
| 39 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 claws | amod |
| 40 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 scratched | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 took | cc |
| 42 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 took | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 house | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 house | nmod:poss |
| 46 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 took | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | harvest time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the Coyote | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut off | participle | the Coyote not said here | all potato tops at the ground | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | the Coyote not said here | bear | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | scratch out | past | the Bear | the potatoes | the ground | with Coyote's big claws | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.instrument»: agent=Agent potato=Patient from ground=Source with claw=Instrument | ||
| 6 | take | past | the Coyote not said here | bear | Coyote's house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination |
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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