The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 14
Despite his youth, Tái-oh was a capital hunter; and every day he brought home not only rabbits enough for the family, but also to keep the Eagle well fed.
Who acts: Tái, Eagle · What happens: be, bring, keep, feed · To what, where: capital hunter, day, rabbits, Eagle
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 (Tái, Eagle), 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 | Despite | despite | ADP | _ | 3 youth | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 youth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunter | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 youth | punct |
| 5 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hunter | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tái | punct |
| 7 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Tái | discourse |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hunter | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hunter | det |
| 10 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunter | compound |
| 11 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 keep | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 keep | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 and | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 day | acl:relcl |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 rabbits | advmod |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 rabbits | advmod |
| 21 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brought | obj |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 rabbits | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 family | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 family | det |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 keep | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 keep | cc |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 keep | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 keep | mark |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hunter | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Eagle | det |
| 32 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 keep | obj |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 fed | advmod |
| 34 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 keep | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tái | a capital hunter | despite boy's youth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | past | Tái | every day not said here | rabbits | for the family; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=Destination | ||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Tái not said here | the Eagle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed | participle | the Eagle not said here | well property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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