The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 11
The Eagle is Kah-báy-deh (commander) of all that flies, and his feathers are strongest in medicine.
Who acts: Eagle, commander, feathers · What happens: be, fly · To what, where: báy deh, medicine
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, commander, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 deh | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 deh | cop |
| 4 | Kah | Kah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 deh | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kah | punct |
| 6 | báy | báy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deh | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 deh | punct |
| 8 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 commander | punct |
| 10 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deh | conj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 commander | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 commander | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 flies | nsubj |
| 15 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 commander | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 strongest | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strongest | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 strongest | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 strongest | cop |
| 21 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 deh | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 medicine | case |
| 23 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strongest | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 deh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Eagle | báy deh and commander of all | Kah nsubj; commander of all conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | present | commander of all | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Kah's feathers | báy deh and commander of all not said here | medicine | strong property | 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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