The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 124
When he got back to the _estufa_ where all the people were waiting, they saw that his head and neck had been burnt bare of feathers--and from that day to this the feathers would never grow out again.
Who acts: Eagle, people, feathers · What happens: get back, wait, see, burnt, not grow out · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
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, people, feathers), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 estufa | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 estufa | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 estufa | punct |
| 8 | estufa | estufa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 waiting | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 waiting | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 people | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 waiting | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 waiting | aux |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 burnt | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burnt | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 neck | cc |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | conj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 burnt | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 burnt | aux:pass |
| 26 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 27 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 burnt | xcomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 feathers | case |
| 29 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bare | obl |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 grow | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 grow | cc |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 day | case |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 grow | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 this | case |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 day | nmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 feathers | det |
| 38 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 grow | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 grow | aux |
| 40 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 grow | advmod |
| 41 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saw | conj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 grow | compound:prt |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 grow | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | Eagle | to the estufa result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to estufa=Result | ||||
| 2 | wait | past · progressive | all people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | burnt | past · perfect · passive | Eagle's head and neck | bare property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not grow out | would | the feathers | again; day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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