The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 52
Then he took his fish and went home, stopping every little to laugh at the thought of the Coyote.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: take, go, stop, laugh, think · To what, where: fish, little, thought, Coyote
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fish | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopping | punct |
| 10 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stopping | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 laugh | mark |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stopping | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 thought | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thought | det |
| 17 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laugh | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Coyote | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Coyote | det |
| 20 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Coyote | Coyote's fish | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | Coyote not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | gerund | Coyote not said here | every little | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality little=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | laugh | to-infinitive | Coyote not said here | the thought of the Coyote | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | think | the Coyote | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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