The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 16
No sooner was he out of sight than the girl began to upbraid the bird bitterly, saying: “How I hate you, for my brother loves you so much.
Who acts: Tái, sight, brother · What happens: be, begin, upbraid, say, hate, love · To what, where: sight, bird, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, sight, brother), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 sight | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sight | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 girl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 upbraid | mark |
| 13 | upbraid | upbraid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 upbraid | obj |
| 16 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 13 upbraid | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 upbraid | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 hate | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 hate | punct |
| 21 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 hate | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hate | nsubj |
| 23 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 hate | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 loves | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 loves | mark |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 loves | nsubj |
| 29 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hate | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 loves | obj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 much | advmod |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 loves | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tái | no sight | than the girl; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | past | no sight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | upbraid | to-infinitive | no sight not said here | the bird | bitterly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | no sight not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hate in a quote | present | no sight = sight | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | love in a quote | present | my brother | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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