The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 56

“I suspect there is something wrong here,” said the old shepherd; and he called: “Coyote, are you coyote-true, or are you people?”

Who acts: old shepherd, something, shepherd, you · What happens: suspect, be, say, call · To what, where: Coyote, people · 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 (old shepherd, something, shepherd, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 suspect	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suspect	nsubj
3	suspect	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suspect	ccomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 is	nsubj
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 is	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 suspect	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 suspect	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shepherd	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shepherd	amod
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	nsubj
18	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Coyote	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Coyote	punct
21	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 true	punct
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 true	cop
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 true	nsubj
25	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 true	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 coyote	punct
27	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 called	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 people	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 people	cc
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 people	cop
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 people	nsubj
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 called	parataxis
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 people	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 people	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suspect in a quote	present	the old shepherd = shepherd				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be in a quote	present	something		here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the old shepherd				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	call speech: ask	past	shepherd	Coyote			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	you			true property	tree rules
6	is a in a quote	present	you	people			tree rules

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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 56