The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 26
When the Coyote came to dig his share, he found nothing but roots like threads, which were good for nothing.
Who acts: Coyote, threads · What happens: come, dig, find, be, share · To what, where: share, nothing
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, threads), 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 | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dig | mark |
| 6 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 share | nmod:poss |
| 8 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dig | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 roots | cc |
| 14 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nothing | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 threads | case |
| 16 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 roots | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 good | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 threads | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 nothing | case |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 good | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Coyote | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dig | to-infinitive | the Coyote not said here | Coyote's share | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent share=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Coyote | nothing roots like threads | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | threads | for nothing; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | share | Coyote | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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