The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 121
Up and up, till the hot sun began to singe his head, and not even the Eagle had ever been so high.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: begin, singe, not be · To what, where: head
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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 9 began | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 up | cc |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Up | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Up | punct |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sun | amod |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | obl |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 singe | mark |
| 11 | singe | singe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 singe | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 high | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 high | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 high | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 Eagle | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Eagle | det |
| 19 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 high | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 high | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 high | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 high | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 high | advmod |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 began | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | till the hot sun | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | singe | to-infinitive | buzzard's head | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not is | past · perfect | the Eagle | ever | high property | tree rules |
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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