The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 56
His friend had fallen in love with an Eagle-girl and married her, and that was the reason he had not returned sooner.
Who acts: friend, that · What happens: fall, marry, be, not return · To what, where: love, girl, reason
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 (friend, that), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | aux |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 9 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 girl | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Eagle | punct |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 married | cc |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 married | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reason | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reason | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 reason | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reason | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reason | det |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | parataxis |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 returned | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 returned | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 returned | advmod |
| 24 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 reason | acl:relcl |
| 25 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 returned | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | Tái's friend | love | with a Eagle girl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 2 | marry | past | Tái's friend not said here | girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not return | past · perfect | friend | the reason not said here | soon property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
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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