The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 3
One day as the Coyote-father was strolling along the edge of the forest he met the Woodpecker-father.
Who acts: One day, family · What happens: stroll, meet · To what, where: edge, Woodpecker father
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 (One day, family), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strolling | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 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 | 2 day | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 strolling | aux |
| 9 | strolling | stroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 edge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 edge | det |
| 12 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strolling | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 edge | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forest | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 father | det |
| 19 | Woodpecker | Woodpecker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 father | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Woodpecker | punct |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 strolling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll | past · progressive | One day as the Coyote father | the edge of the forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along edge=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | family | the Woodpecker father | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-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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