The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 15
One day when he was about to start on a hunt, he asked his sister to look out for the Eagle during his absence.
Who acts: Tái · What happens: be, start, ask, look out, absent · To what, where: hunt, sister
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), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 about | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 about | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 start | mark |
| 8 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 about | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hunt | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hunt | det |
| 11 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 start | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 look | compound:prt |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Eagle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Eagle | det |
| 22 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 25 absence | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 absence | nmod:poss |
| 25 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tái | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | Tái not said here | a hunt | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Tái | Tái's sister | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | look out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tái not said here | during Tái's absence | for the Eagle | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for eagle=Theme | |||
| 5 | absent | Tái | nom absence «state 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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