The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 21
“Come, friend Coyote, I think we ought to plant this good land again, and this time let us plant it in corn.
Who acts: you, I, us · What happens: come, think, plant, let · To what, where: Coyote, good land, us, land, corn · 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, I, us), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Coyote | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Coyote | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | parataxis |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ought | nsubj |
| 10 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 plant | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 plant | mark |
| 12 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 think | ccomp |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 land | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 land | amod |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plant | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 plant | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 let | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | parataxis |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 plant | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 corn | case |
| 26 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plant | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Coyote friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | plant in a quote | ought | this good land | again | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | plant in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | land | corn | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in corn=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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