The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 3
ONCE upon a time Ko-íd-deh (the Bear) and Too-wháy-deh (the Coyote) chanced to meet at a certain spot, and sat down to talk.
Who acts: Ko · What happens: deh, chance, meet, sit down, talk · To what, where: time, wháy deh, certain spot
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 (Ko), 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 | ONCE | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 sat | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ONCE | obl |
| 5 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ko | punct |
| 7 | íd | íd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 deh | punct |
| 9 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bear | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bear | det |
| 12 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bear | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deh | cc |
| 15 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 19 deh | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Too | punct |
| 17 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deh | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 deh | punct |
| 19 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deh | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Coyote | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Coyote | det |
| 22 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 deh | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Coyote | punct |
| 24 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 deh | acl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 chanced | advcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 spot | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 spot | det |
| 29 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 spot | amod |
| 30 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 meet | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sat | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sat | cc |
| 33 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 sat | compound:prt |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 talk | mark |
| 36 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 sat | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deh | Ko | a time not said here | the Bear appos; wháy deh conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chance | participle | wháy deh not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | a certain spot | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sit down | past | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | talk | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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