The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 33

Tái-oh waited three days, and still the Eagle did not return; so he became uneasy and started out to see what he could find.

Who acts: Tái, Eagle · What happens: wait, not return, become, start out, see, find · 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 (Tái, 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	Tái	Tái	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Tái	punct
3	oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waited	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 return	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 return	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	14 return	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Eagle	det
11	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 return	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 return	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 return	advmod
14	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waited	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 became	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
19	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 became	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 started	cc
21	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 became	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 started	compound:prt
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 started	advcl
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 find	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 see	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Tái	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	past · do-support	the Eagle	still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	Tái		uneasy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	start out	past	Tái not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	see	to-infinitive	Tái not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	find	could	Tái		what obj	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 33