The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 28
That winter the Coyote was walking one day by the river (the Rio Grande), when he saw the Bear sitting on the ice and eating a fish.
Who acts: winter, Coyote, Bear · What happens: walk, see, sit, eat · To what, where: Bear, ice, fish
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 (winter, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 winter | det |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Coyote | det |
| 4 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 walking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walking | aux |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walking | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Grande | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Grande | det |
| 14 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Grande | compound |
| 15 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 river | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Grande | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walking | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bear | det |
| 22 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 ice | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ice | det |
| 26 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 eating | cc |
| 28 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 sitting | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fish | det |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eating | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | that winter | day | by the river; the Coyote nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | see | past | Coyote | the Bear | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | the Bear not said here | the ice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ice=Location | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | the Bear not said here | a fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
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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