The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 29
The Eagle kept soaring up and up until they came to the very sky.
Who acts: Eagle, eagles · What happens: keep, soar up, come · To what, where: sky
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, eagles), 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 | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | soaring | soar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 soaring | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 sky | advmod |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | soar up | gerund | the Eagle not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come | past | eagles = eagle | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sky=Initial_Location |
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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