The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 29

“Ow!” cried the other Coyote-girl in a moment, “my fire has gone out!”

Who acts: other Coyote girl, fire, my · What happens: cry, go out, fire · 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 (other Coyote girl, fire, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
2	Ow	ow	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ow	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ow	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
8	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 girl	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Coyote	punct
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 moment	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fire	nmod:poss
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cried	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 gone	compound:prt
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the other Coyote girl	moment	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go out in a quote	present · perfect	my fire		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fire in a quote		my		nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 29