The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 53

There on the ice the Coyote had to stay until a thaw liberated him, and when he got home he was very wet and cold and half starved.

Who acts: Coyote, thaw, half · What happens: have, stay, liberate, get, be, starve · To what, where: ice, 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, thaw, half), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 had	expl
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 ice	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ice	det
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Coyote	det
6	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 liberated	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thaw	det
12	thaw	thaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 liberated	nsubj
13	liberated	liberate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stay	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liberated	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wet	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wet	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 got	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wet	advcl
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 got	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wet	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wet	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 wet	advmod
24	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cold	cc
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wet	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 starved	cc
28	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 starved	nsubj
29	starved	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wet	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Coyote		the ice; there		tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	the Coyote not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	liberate	past	a thaw	Coyote			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	get	past	Coyote			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	Coyote			wet property	tree rules
6	be		Coyote not said here				tree rules
7	starve	past	half				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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 53