The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 46
He could find nothing to eat save dry bones, and old thongs or soles of moccasins.
Who acts: COYOTE · What happens: find, eat, save · To what, where: nothing, dry bones
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eat | xcomp |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bones | amod |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 save | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thongs | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thongs | cc |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thongs | amod |
| 13 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 soles | cc |
| 15 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thongs | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 moccasins | case |
| 17 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 soles | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could | COYOTE | nothing | old thongs or soles of moccasins obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | COYOTE not said here | nothing not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | COYOTE not said here | dry bones | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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