The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 17
“But, friend Coyote,” answered the Bear, gravely, “did we not make an agreement?
Who acts: friend, we · What happens: answer, not make · To what, where: Bear, agreement · 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 (friend, we), 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 answered | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Coyote | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bear | det |
| 10 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gravely | punct |
| 12 | gravely | gravely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Bear | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 make | advmod |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 agreement | det |
| 20 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | friend | the Bear | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bear=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | past · do-support | we | a agreement | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agreement=Product |
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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