The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 8

One of the minor differences, but one which would be almost the first to strike a stranger, is the absence of captive eagles in Moqui; and this is explained by the following folk-story:

Who acts: folk story · What happens: be, strike, explain, follow · To what, where: stranger, absence, this, One

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 (folk story), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 differences	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 differences	det
4	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 differences	amod
5	differences	difference	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 one	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	conj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 first	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 first	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 first	cop
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 first	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 first	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 one	appos
15	to	to	PART	_	16 strike	mark
16	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 first	acl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stranger	det
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 strike	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 absence	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 absence	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 absence	det
22	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 One	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 eagles	case
24	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eagles	amod
25	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 absence	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Moqui	case
27	Moqui	Moqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 eagles	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 explained	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 explained	cc
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 explained	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 explained	aux:pass
32	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 One	acl
33	by	by	ADP	_	38 story	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 story	det
35	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 story	case
36	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 story	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 folk	punct
38	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 explained	obl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would			which nsubj; almost, first property	tree rules
2	strike	to-infinitive		a stranger		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient
3	is a	present		the absence	of captive eagles in Moqui	tree rules
4	explain speech: assert	present · passive	the folk story	this		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
5	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 8