The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 24

When they came to the house of the Woodpeckers and went in, all the Coyotes kept lifting their arms often, to show the bright coals underneath.

Who acts: Woodpecker, Coyotes · What happens: come, go in, keep, lift, show · To what, where: house, arms, bright coals

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, Coyotes), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Woodpeckers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Woodpeckers	det
9	Woodpeckers	Woodpecker	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 house	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 Coyotes	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Coyotes	det
16	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	lifting	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lifting	obj
21	often	often	ADV	_	18 lifting	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 show	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 show	mark
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 kept	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 coals	det
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coals	amod
27	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 show	obj
28	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	24 show	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Woodpecker		the house of the Woodpeckers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	go in	past	Woodpecker not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	past	all Coyotes				tree rules
4	lift	gerund	all Coyotes not said here	Woodpecker's arms		often property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	show	to-infinitive	all Coyotes not said here	the bright coals		underneath property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coal=Recipient

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 24