The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 120
Higher he wheeled, and higher, till at last not even the Eagle could see him.
Who acts: buzzard, Eagle · What happens: wheel, not see · To what, where: buzzard
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 (buzzard, 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 | Higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 wheeled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wheeled | nsubj |
| 3 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 higher | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 higher | cc |
| 6 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 wheeled | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 higher | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Eagle | det |
| 14 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 last | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wheeled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wheel | past | buzzard | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not see | could | the Eagle | buzzard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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