The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 122

He cried with pain, but still he kept mounting--until he was so close to the sun that all the feathers were burned from his head and neck.

Who acts: Eagle · What happens: cry, keep, mount, be, burn · To what, where: feathers, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 pain	case
4	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	9 kept	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
10	mounting	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 close	punct
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 close	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 close	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 close	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 close	advmod
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 sun	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 burned	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 feathers	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 feathers	det
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 burned	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 burned	aux:pass
25	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sun	acl:relcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 burned	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 neck	cc
30	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 head	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Eagle				with pain	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme
2	keep	past	Eagle			still		tree rules
3	mount	gerund	Eagle not said here					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	Eagle				to the sun; close property	tree rules
5	burn	past · passive		all feathers	Eagle's head and neck		the sun obj	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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 122

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 122