The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 34
“Won’t you show me how, friend?” asked the Coyote, fainting with hunger at the smell of the fish.
Who acts: you, Coyote, fish · What happens: not show, ask, faint, smell · To what, where: Coyote · 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, Coyote, fish), 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 | _ | 5 show | punct |
| 2 | Wo | wo | INTJ | _ | 5 show | discourse |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 show | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 show | nsubj |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 show | iobj |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 asked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Coyote | det |
| 14 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fainting | punct |
| 16 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hunger | case |
| 18 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fainting | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 smell | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 smell | det |
| 21 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fainting | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fish | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fish | det |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 smell | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show in a quote | present | you | the Coyote = coyote | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Coyote | friend nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | faint | gerund | the Coyote not said here | with hunger; at the smell of the fish | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at smell=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | smell | the fish | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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