The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 20
Next day, the Coyote-father had all his family at work bringing wood, and built a great fire in front of his house.
Who acts: Coyote father, work · What happens: have, bring, build · To what, where: family, work, wood, great fire, front
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 father, work), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 5 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 father | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Coyote | punct |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 family | det:predet |
| 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 had | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 work | case |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 14 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 work | acl |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bringing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 built | cc |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fire | amod |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 built | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 built | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 front | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Coyote father | father's family | work | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | ||
| 2 | bring | gerund | work not said here | wood | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | past | the Coyote father not said here | a great fire | front of father's house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
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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