The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 103
So the Eagle took the offering, and smoked the smoke-prayer; and then he went winging upward into the very sky.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: take, smoke, go, wing · To what, where: offering, smoke prayer, sky
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 offering | det |
| 6 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smoked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smoked | cc |
| 9 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prayer | det |
| 11 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prayer | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 smoke | punct |
| 13 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smoked | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 went | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 19 | winging | wing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 went | xcomp |
| 20 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 19 winging | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sky | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sky | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sky | advmod |
| 24 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 winging | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Eagle | the offering | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smoke | past | the Eagle not said here | the smoke prayer | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent prayer=Source | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Eagle | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wing | gerund | Eagle not said here | the sky | upward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into sky=Trajectory |
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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