The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 27
It circled over the town a long time, and the people cried out with wonder and fear at seeing an Eagle with a boy on his back.
Who acts: string, people · What happens: circle, cry out, see · To what, where: town, Eagle
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, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 circled | nsubj |
| 2 | circled | circle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 circled | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 circled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 circled | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wonder | case |
| 16 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fear | cc |
| 18 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wonder | conj |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 20 seeing | mark |
| 20 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 cried | advcl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Eagle | det |
| 22 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 seeing | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 boy | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 boy | det |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seeing | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 back | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 back | nmod:poss |
| 28 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boy | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 circled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circle | past | string | the town | time | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the people | with wonder and fear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with wonder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | the people not said here | a Eagle | with a boy on boy's back | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=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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