The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 19
At noon, when she brought him his dinner, he did the same thing; and at night, when Tái-oh returned, the Eagle told him all that had happened.
Who acts: bird, Tái, Eagle, that · What happens: bring, do, return, tell, happen · To what, where: dinner, Tái, same thing · 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 (bird, Tái, Eagle, that), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 noon | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 noon | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 brought | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 did | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 told | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 told | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 returned | advmod |
| 22 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tái | punct |
| 24 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 25 returned | discourse |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 night | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 night | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Eagle | det |
| 28 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 told | nsubj |
| 29 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 did | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 told | iobj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 happened | det:predet |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 happened | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 happened | aux |
| 34 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 told | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | bird | Tái's dinner | Tái | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination dinner=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | Tái | the same thing | noon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | return | participle | Tái | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the Eagle | Tái | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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