The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 54
The Antelope Boy soon forged ahead; but Deer-foot, by his witchcraft, changed himself into a hawk and flew lightly over the lad, saying, “_We_ do this way to each other!”
Who acts: Antelope Boy, We · What happens: forge, change, fly, say, do · To what, where: Deer foot, boy, lad, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Antelope Boy, We), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boy | det |
| 2 | Antelope | Antelope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Boy | compound |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forged | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 forged | advmod |
| 5 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 5 forged | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 foot | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 foot | cc |
| 9 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 foot | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Deer | punct |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forged | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 witchcraft | punct |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 witchcraft | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 witchcraft | nmod:poss |
| 15 | witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foot | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 changed | punct |
| 17 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forged | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 changed | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hawk | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hawk | det |
| 21 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flew | cc |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forged | conj |
| 24 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 lad | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lad | det |
| 27 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 29 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 flew | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 do | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 do | punct |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 do | punct |
| 33 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 do | nsubj |
| 34 | _ | _ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 do | aux |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 saying | ccomp |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 way | det |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 do | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 each | case |
| 39 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 35 do | obl |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 each | fixed |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 do | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | past | the Antelope Boy | Deer foot and boy's witchcraft | ahead, soon property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | change | past | the Antelope Boy not said here | boy | into a hawk result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into hawk=Result | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the Antelope Boy not said here | the lad | lightly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lad=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | gerund | the Antelope Boy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | We | this way | to each | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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