The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 32
“Oh, that is the beauty of our colors,” replied the Coyote, smothering his rage; “that they are not always the same--like other people’s--but turn all shades.”
Who acts: that, beauty, Coyote, other people · What happens: be, reply, smother, not be, turn, rage · To what, where: beauty, Coyote, rage, shades · 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 (that, beauty, Coyote, other people), 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 | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 beauty | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 beauty | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 beauty | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beauty | det |
| 7 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 colors | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 colors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beauty | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beauty | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 beauty | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 turn | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Coyote | det |
| 15 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smothering | punct |
| 17 | smothering | smother | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smothering | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 same | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 same | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 same | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 same | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 same | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 same | advmod |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 same | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 same | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | parataxis |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 turn | punct |
| 30 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 36 turn | mark |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 people | amod |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 turn | nsubj |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 people | case |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 turn | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 turn | cc |
| 36 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 shades | det |
| 38 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 turn | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 turn | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | the beauty | of our colors | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the beauty | the Coyote | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smother | gerund | the beauty not said here | beauty's rage | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rage=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | Coyote | always, same property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | turn in a quote | infinitive | other people | all shades | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shade=Theme | ||||
| 6 | rage | beauty | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: 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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