The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 90
Yet his black eyes are like a hawk’s, under their heavy brows, and his voice is musical and deep.
Who acts: black eyes, voice · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black eyes, voice), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 8 hawk | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hawk | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hawk | cop |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 hawk | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hawk | det |
| 8 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 hawk | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brows | punct |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 brows | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brows | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brows | amod |
| 14 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hawk | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 musical | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 musical | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 musical | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 musical | cop |
| 20 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hawk | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 deep | cc |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 musical | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hawk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wind's black eyes | like a hawk and eyes's heavy brows; eyes's heavy brows conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | wind's voice | musical property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | wind's voice not said here | 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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