The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 15
But when they were gone, the Coyote-father could hold himself no longer, and he said:
Who acts: Woodpecker, Coyote father, father · What happens: be, hold, say · To what, where: father · 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 father, father), 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 | _ | 12 hold | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hold | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 father | det |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 father | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Coyote | punct |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hold | aux |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hold | obj |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 hold | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hold | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Woodpecker | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | could | the Coyote father | father | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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