The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 26
The string was soon untied, and Tái-oh got astride the neck of the great bird, which rose up into the air as though it carried no weight at all.
Who acts: string, Tái, great bird · What happens: be, get, rise up, carry · To what, where: air, weight, all
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 (string, Tái, great 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 string | det |
| 2 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 untied | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 untied | cop |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 untied | advmod |
| 5 | untied | untied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 8 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tái | punct |
| 10 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 got | discourse |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 untied | parataxis |
| 12 | astride | astride | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neck | det |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bird | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bird | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bird | amod |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 neck | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rose | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 rose | nsubj |
| 21 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bird | acl:relcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 rose | compound:prt |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rose | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 carried | advmod |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 29 carried | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carried | nsubj |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 rose | advcl |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 weight | det |
| 31 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carried | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 carried | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the string | soon, untied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | participle | Tái | astride the neck of the great bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | rise up | past | the great bird | the air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | string | no weight | all | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=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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