The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 31
“But how is it, friend Coyote,” said the Woodpecker, politely, “that your colors are so bright at first, but very soon become black?”
Who acts: fire, colors · What happens: be, say, become · To what, where: 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 (fire, colors), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 it | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 it | appos |
| 8 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Woodpecker | det |
| 13 | Woodpecker | Woodpecker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 politely | punct |
| 15 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bright | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 bright | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 bright | mark |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 colors | nmod:poss |
| 20 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bright | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bright | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 bright | advmod |
| 23 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 first | case |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 bright | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 become | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 become | cc |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 soon | advmod |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 become | advmod |
| 30 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 31 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 become | xcomp |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 black | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | fire | friend appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | fire | the Woodpecker nsubj; politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | your colors | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | infinitive | black, soon property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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