The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 13
They praised the supper highly, and said the Coyote-mother was a perfect housekeeper.
Who acts: Woodpecker, Coyote mother · What happens: praise, say, be · To what, where: supper, perfect housekeeper · 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 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 (Woodpecker, Coyote mother), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 praised | nsubj |
| 2 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 supper | det |
| 4 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | obj |
| 5 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 2 praised | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 praised | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mother | det |
| 10 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mother | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Coyote | punct |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 housekeeper | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 housekeeper | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 housekeeper | det |
| 15 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 housekeeper | amod |
| 16 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | Woodpecker | the supper | highly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Coyote mother | a perfect housekeeper | 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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