The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 1
WELL, once upon a time a Coyote and his family lived near the edge of a wood.
Who acts: Coyote · What happens: live · To what, where: edge
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Woodpecker. 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 | WELL | well | INTJ | _ | 12 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 WELL | punct |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 lived | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 once | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Coyote | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 family | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 family | nmod:poss |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Coyote | conj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 edge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edge | det |
| 15 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 edge | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Coyote and his family | the edge of a wood | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near edge=Location |
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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