The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 48

The latter I have often seen throwing upon a stone at the crest of a mountain pass the quid of coca-leaves they had been chewing.

Who acts: latter, throwing, leaves · What happens: see, throw, pass, chew · To what, where: crest, quid, coca leaves

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 (latter, throwing, leaves), 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 latter	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seen	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 pass	csubj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 stone	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throwing	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 crest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crest	det
13	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throwing	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mountain	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mountain	det
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crest	nmod
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 quid	det
19	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pass	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 leaves	case
21	coca	coca	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leaves	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 coca	punct
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 quid	nmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 chewing	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chewing	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 chewing	aux
27	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 leaves	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	the latter			I nsubj; often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	throw	gerund			the crest of a mountain	upon a stone	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon stone=Destination
3	pass	infinitive	throwing	the quid of coca leaves			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quid=Trajectory
4	chew	past · perfect · progressive	leaves = leaf	coca leaves not said here			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 48