The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 38
“Now, friend Coyote, sit down and let your tail hang in the water, and very soon you will feel a nibble.
Who acts: you, tail · What happens: sit down, let, hang, feel · To what, where: friend Coyote, tail, water, nibble
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, tail), 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 | _ | 7 sit | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Coyote | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Coyote | compound |
| 5 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Coyote | punct |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sit | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 sit | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hang | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feel | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 feel | cc |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 feel | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 feel | aux |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sit | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 nibble | det |
| 25 | nibble | nibble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feel | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down in a quote | imperative | you not said here | friend Coyote | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your tail | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang in a quote | infinitive | your tail not said here | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | ||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | future | you | a nibble | soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nibble=Theme |
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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