The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 64
There the Eagle let Tái-oh down among the wondering people, and, bidding him an affectionate good-by, flew off to his young wife in the sky.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: let, wonder, bid, fly off · To what, where: Tái
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 (Eagle), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 let | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Tái | Tái | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tái | punct |
| 7 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 11 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bidding | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bidding | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bidding | punct |
| 16 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 let | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bidding | obj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 good | det |
| 19 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 good | amod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bidding | ccomp |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 good | fixed |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flew | punct |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 flew | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 wife | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wife | amod |
| 29 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 sky | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sky | det |
| 32 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wife | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the Eagle | Tái | there | among the wondering people; down property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tái=Theme | ||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | the Eagle not said here | Tái | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly off | past | the Eagle not said here | to Tái's young wife in the sky result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wife=Result |
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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