The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 57
Tái-oh stayed there some time, being very nicely entertained, and enjoyed himself greatly in the strange sky-country.
Who acts: Tái · What happens: stay, be, enjoy · To what, where: Tái, strange sky country
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 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tái | punct |
| 3 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entertained | punct |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 entertained | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 entertained | advmod |
| 11 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 12 entertained | advmod |
| 12 | entertained | entertained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 enjoyed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 enjoyed | cc |
| 15 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 enjoyed | obj |
| 17 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 15 enjoyed | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 country | det |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 country | amod |
| 21 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 country | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sky | punct |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enjoyed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Tái | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | Tái not said here | entertained, nicely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | past | Tái not said here | Tái | the strange sky country | greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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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