The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 13
The boy, whose name was Tái-oh, had a pet Eagle, of which he was very fond; and the Eagle loved its young master.
Who acts: name, boy, Eagle, Tái · What happens: be, have, love, name · To what, where: Tái, pet Eagle, young master
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 (name, boy, Eagle, Tái), 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 | 11 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tái | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Tái | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Tái | cop |
| 7 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 oh | punct |
| 9 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 Tái | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 oh | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Eagle | det |
| 13 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Eagle | compound |
| 14 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fond | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 fond | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fond | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fond | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 fond | advmod |
| 21 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Eagle | amod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 loved | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 loved | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Eagle | det |
| 25 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 loved | nsubj |
| 26 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 master | nmod:poss |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 master | amod |
| 29 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loved | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tái's name | Tái | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the boy | a pet Eagle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | boy | of a pet Eagle; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | past | the Eagle | name's young master | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | name | Tái | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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