The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 51
While he pulled and howled, the Bear shouted with laughter, and rolled on the ice and ha-ha’d till his sides were sore.
Who acts: Coyote, Bear · What happens: pull, howl, shout, roll, be · To what, where: ice
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 (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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 pulled | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shouted | advcl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 howled | cc |
| 5 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bear | det |
| 8 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 laughter | case |
| 11 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rolled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rolled | cc |
| 14 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shouted | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ice | det |
| 17 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rolled | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ’d | cc |
| 19 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 22 ’d | discourse |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ha | punct |
| 21 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 22 ’d | discourse |
| 22 | ’d | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ice | conj |
| 23 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 sides | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sides | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sore | obl |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sore | cop |
| 27 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rolled | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | Coyote | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | howl | past | Coyote not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the Bear | with laughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | roll | participle | the ice and ’d | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | is | past | till Coyote's sides | sore 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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