The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 43
Then the false friend went away, laughing, to his village; and the poor Coyote wandered aimlessly, weeping to think that he had been betrayed by the one he had loved and trusted as a brother.
Who acts: false friend, poor Coyote, one, COYOTE · What happens: go away, laugh, wander, weep, think, betray · To what, where: village, COYOTE, one · 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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false friend, poor Coyote, one, 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 | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 3 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughing | punct |
| 8 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 village | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 village | nmod:poss |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughing | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wandered | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Coyote | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Coyote | amod |
| 17 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wandered | nsubj |
| 18 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 19 | aimlessly | aimlessly | ADV | _ | 18 wandered | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weeping | punct |
| 21 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 wandered | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 think | mark |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 weeping | xcomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 betrayed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 betrayed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 betrayed | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 betrayed | aux:pass |
| 28 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 think | ccomp |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 betrayed | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 loved | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 loved | aux |
| 34 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 one | acl:relcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 trusted | cc |
| 36 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 loved | conj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 brother | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 brother | det |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 trusted | obl:agent |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the false friend | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the false friend not said here | friend's village | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to village=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | the poor Coyote | aimlessly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | weep | gerund | the poor Coyote not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the poor Coyote not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | betray | past · perfect · passive | the one | COYOTE | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | love | past · perfect | COYOTE | the one not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | trust | participle | COYOTE not said here | a brother obl:agent | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «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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