The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 47
In a few minutes the hole was frozen solid, and his tail was fast.
Who acts: tail · What happens: freeze, be · To what, where: hole
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 frozen | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 frozen | aux:pass |
| 8 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 frozen | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fast | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fast | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fast | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fast | cop |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 frozen | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past · passive | the hole | minute | solid property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | Coyote's tail | fast property | tree rules |
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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