The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear[17], sentence 54
And from that day to this he has never forgiven the Bear, and will not even speak to him when they meet, and the Bear says, politely, “Good morning, friend Too-wháy-deh.”
Who acts: bear · What happens: not forgive, not speak, meet, say · To what, where: Coyote · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgiven | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgiven | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgiven | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 forgiven | advmod |
| 10 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bear | det |
| 12 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgiven | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 speak | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 speak | cc |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 speak | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 speak | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 speak | advmod |
| 18 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgiven | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 speak | obl |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | nsubj |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 speak | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 says | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Bear | det |
| 27 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 says | nsubj |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgiven | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 politely | punct |
| 30 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 28 says | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 morning | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 morning | punct |
| 33 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 morning | amod |
| 34 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 says | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 friend | punct |
| 36 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 morning | appos |
| 37 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 41 deh | advmod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Too | punct |
| 39 | wháy | wháy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 deh | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 deh | punct |
| 41 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 friend | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgiven | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgiven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forgive | present · perfect · passive | Coyote | day | the Bear obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | future | Coyote | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet | present | bear | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the Bear | morning | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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