The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 33
But the Coyotes were very uncomfortable, and made an excuse to hurry home as soon as they could.
Who acts: Coyotes · What happens: be, make, hurry · To what, where: excuse
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 uncomfortable | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Coyotes | det |
| 3 | Coyotes | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 uncomfortable | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 uncomfortable | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 6 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 uncomfortable | parataxis |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 excuse | det |
| 11 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hurry | mark |
| 13 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 excuse | acl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 hurry | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 hurry | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 soon | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 uncomfortable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Coyotes | uncomfortable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a excuse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product | |||||
| 3 | hurry | to-infinitive | a excuse not said here | home, soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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