The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 30
There in the blue was a little door, through which the Eagle flew.
Who acts: blue, Eagle · What happens: be, fly · To what, where: little door
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 (blue, Eagle), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 flew | expl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blue | det |
| 4 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 door | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 door | amod |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 flew | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Eagle | det |
| 13 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the blue | a little door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the Eagle | there | which obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through which=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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