The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 55

The old man came out, and set the dogs after the Coyote, which was sitting a little way off; but when they came near they would not touch him.

Who acts: old man, Coyote, dogs · What happens: come out, set, sit, come, not touch · To what, where: dogs, little way, COYOTE

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 (old man, Coyote, dogs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dogs	det
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 Coyote	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Coyote	det
13	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sitting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 Coyote	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 way	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl:unmarked
21	off	off	ADV	_	20 way	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
27	near	near	ADP	_	31 touch	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 touch	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 touch	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 touch	advmod
31	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 came	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 touch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the old man			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	set	past	the old man not said here	the dogs	after the Coyote		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dog=Result
3	sit	past · progressive	the Coyote	a little way			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	dogs = dog				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not touch	would	dogs = dog	COYOTE			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 55

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 55