The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 14
When it was time to go, they thanked the Coyotes very kindly and invited them to come to supper at their house the following evening.
Who acts: supper, Woodpecker · What happens: be, go, thank, invite, come, supper · To what, where: time, Coyotes, Woodpecker, house
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 (supper, Woodpecker), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 time | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thanked | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thanked | nsubj |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Coyotes | det |
| 11 | Coyotes | coyote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thanked | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 kindly | advmod |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 9 thanked | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 invited | cc |
| 15 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thanked | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 invited | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 invited | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 supper | mark |
| 20 | supper | supper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | xcomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 supper | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 evening | det |
| 25 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 evening | amod |
| 26 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 supper | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | supper | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Woodpecker not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | Woodpecker | the Coyotes | kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coyote=Theme | |||
| 4 | invite | past | Woodpecker not said here | Woodpecker | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Woodpecker not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | supper | to-infinitive | Woodpecker not said here | Woodpecker's house | evening | tree rules | |||
| 7 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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