The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 16
For the endless light grew heavy to the world’s young eyes that knew no tender lids of night.
Who acts: endless light, young eyes · What happens: grow, know · To what, where: tender lids
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (endless light, young 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 3 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | amod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 world | case |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heavy | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 lids | det |
| 16 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lids | amod |
| 17 | lids | lid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knew | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lids | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the endless light | heavy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the world's young eyes | no tender lids of night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lid=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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