The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 44
For four days he prowled about the outskirts of Isleta, looking wistfully at his home.
Who acts: COYOTE · What happens: prowl, look
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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prowled | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prowled | nsubj |
| 5 | prowled | prowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 outskirts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 outskirts | det |
| 8 | outskirts | outskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prowled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Isleta | case |
| 10 | Isleta | Isleta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 outskirts | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 prowled | advcl |
| 13 | wistfully | wistfully | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prowled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prowl | past | COYOTE | day | about the outskirts of Isleta | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about outskirt=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | COYOTE not said here | at COYOTE's home; wistfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at home=Theme |
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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