The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 53
After a long, long climb, he came to the top of the ladder, and stepped upon the roof of the Eagles’ house.
Who acts: Tái · What happens: come, step · To what, where: top, roof
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 climb | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 climb | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 climb | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 climb | amod |
| 6 | climb | climb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 climb | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ladder | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ladder | det |
| 15 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stepped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stepped | cc |
| 18 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 roof | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roof | det |
| 21 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stepped | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Eagles | det |
| 24 | Eagles | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 24 Eagles | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roof | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Tái | the top of the ladder | after a long long climb | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | step | past | Tái not said here | the roof of the Eagles's house | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon roof=Trajectory |
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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