The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 45
The boy was very hungry, and picking up the snowbird bit a big piece out of it.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, pick up, bite · To what, where: snowbird, big piece
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hungry | advmod |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bit | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bit | cc |
| 8 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 bit | nsubj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 picking | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snowbird | det |
| 11 | snowbird | snowbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picking | obj |
| 12 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 piece | amod |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bit | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bit | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | the snowbird | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowbird=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bite | past | a big piece | snowbird | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Patient out it=Location |
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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