The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 104
Higher and higher he rose, in great upward circles, while his keen eyes noted every stick, and stone, and animal on the face of all the world.
Who acts: Eagle, keen eyes · What happens: rise, note · To what, where: great upward circles, stick
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, keen eyes), 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 | Higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 rose | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 higher | cc |
| 3 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Higher | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 circles | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 circles | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 circles | amod |
| 9 | upward | upward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 circles | amod |
| 10 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 noted | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 noted | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 noted | nsubj |
| 16 | noted | note | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 stick | det |
| 18 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noted | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stone | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stone | cc |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stick | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 animal | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 animal | cc |
| 24 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noted | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 face | det |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 animal | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 world | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 face | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Eagle | great upward circles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location | ||||
| 2 | note | past | Eagle's keen eyes | every stick and stone | animal on the face of all world obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stick=Topic |
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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