The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 34
When they got there, the Coyote-father whipped them all for exposing him to be laughed at.
Who acts: Coyote, Coyote father · What happens: get, whip, expose, laugh · To what, where: Coyote, 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 (Coyote, Coyote father), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whipped | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 father | det |
| 7 | Coyote | Coyote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 father | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Coyote | punct |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whipped | nsubj |
| 10 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 whipped | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 exposing | mark |
| 14 | exposing | expose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 whipped | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 exposing | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 laughed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 laughed | aux:pass |
| 18 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 exposing | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 laughed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 whipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Coyote | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | whip | past | the Coyote father | Coyote | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material | ||||
| 3 | expose | gerund | the Coyote father not said here | father | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | laugh | to-infinitive · passive | the Coyote father not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
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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