The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 66
And this is why, to this very day, the Moquis will not keep an Eagle captive, though nearly all the other Pueblo towns have all the Eagle-prisoners they can get.
Who acts: this, Moquis, other Pueblo towns, towns · What happens: be, not keep, have, get · To what, where: Eagle captive, Eagle prisoners
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 (this, Moquis, other Pueblo towns, towns), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 why | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 why | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | cop |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Moquis | det |
| 12 | Moquis | Moquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 keep | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 keep | advmod |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 why | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 captive | det |
| 17 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 captive | compound |
| 18 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 21 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 all | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 towns | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 towns | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 towns | amod |
| 25 | Pueblo | pueblo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 towns | compound |
| 26 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keep | advcl |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 prisoners | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 prisoners | det |
| 30 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 prisoners | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Eagle | punct |
| 32 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 have | obj |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 get | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 get | aux |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 prisoners | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not keep | future | the Moquis | a Eagle captive | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | all other Pueblo towns | all Eagle prisoners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | can | towns = town | all Eagle prisoners not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prisoner=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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