The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 18
The Eagle, feeling the injustice of this, was angry; so when she brought him a rabbit for breakfast the Eagle turned his head and looked at it sidewise, and would not touch it.
Who acts: Eagle, bird · What happens: feel, be, bring, turn, look, not touch · To what, where: injustice, rabbit, Tái, head, sight
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, bird), 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 | 11 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Eagle | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 injustice | det |
| 6 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 injustice | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eagle | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 angry | cop |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 brought | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 angry | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rabbit | det |
| 19 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 breakfast | case |
| 21 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Eagle | det |
| 23 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | nsubj |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looked | cc |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 turned | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 looked | obl |
| 31 | sidewise | sidewise | ADV | _ | 28 looked | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 touch | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 touch | cc |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 touch | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 touch | advmod |
| 36 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 turned | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 touch | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | the Eagle not said here | the injustice of this | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Eagle | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | bird | a rabbit | Tái | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination rabbit=Theme | |||
| 4 | turn | past | the Eagle | Tái's head | for breakfast | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 5 | look | past | the Eagle not said here | at sight; sidewise property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not touch | would | the Eagle not said here | sight | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
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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