The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 57
But the Coyote could not answer; and the old man called again: “Coyote, are you people?”
Who acts: Coyote, old man · What happens: not answer, call, be · To what, where: old man, 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 (Coyote, old man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 answer | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyote | det |
| 3 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answer | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 answer | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 answer | advmod |
| 6 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 man | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answer | obj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Coyote | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Coyote | punct |
| 16 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 people | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 people | cop |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 people | nsubj |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 answer | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 answer | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: ask | could | the Coyote | the old man and Coyote | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the old man and Coyote not said here | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the old man and Coyote = man | 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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