The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 55
Again he chewed some of the herb, and spat upon the door; and at once all the points fell off, and he entered safely, and inside he found his Eagle-friend, and all the Eagle-people.
Who acts: Tái, points · What happens: chew, fall off, enter, find · To what, where: some, Eagle friend
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, points), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 chewed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chewed | nsubj |
| 3 | chewed | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 chewed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 herb | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 herb | det |
| 7 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spat | cc |
| 10 | spat | spat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chewed | obl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spat | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 fell | obl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 points | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 points | det |
| 20 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chewed | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 fell | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 entered | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 entered | nsubj |
| 26 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chewed | conj |
| 27 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 26 entered | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 found | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 found | cc |
| 30 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 32 found | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 found | nsubj |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chewed | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 friend | nmod:poss |
| 34 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 friend | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Eagle | punct |
| 36 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 found | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 people | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 people | cc |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 people | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 people | det |
| 41 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 people | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Eagle | punct |
| 43 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 found | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | past | Tái | some of the herb | again | spat upon the door obl | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||
| 2 | fall off | past | all points | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | Tái | safely property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Tái | Tái's Eagle friend | all Eagle people obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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