The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 25
“Now,” said the Eagle, “untie this thong from my leg, friend, and get astride my neck, and we will go.”
Who acts: Eagle, we · What happens: say, untie, get, go · To what, where: thong · 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 (Eagle, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Eagle | det |
| 7 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 untie | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 untie | punct |
| 10 | untie | untie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 thong | det |
| 12 | thong | thong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 untie | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 leg | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 leg | nmod:poss |
| 15 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 untie | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 friend | punct |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leg | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 untie | conj |
| 21 | astride | astride | ADP | _ | 23 neck | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Eagle | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | untie in a quote | infinitive | this thong | from my leg and friend | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent thong=Patient from leg=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | astride my neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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