The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 55
[10] The Antelope Boy kept running, but his heart was very heavy, for he knew that no feet could equal the swift flight of the hawk.
Who acts: Antelope Boy, 10, heart, boy, feet · What happens: keep, run, be, know, equal · To what, where: 10, swift flight · 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, 10, heart, boy), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kept | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Boy | det |
| 5 | Antelope | Antelope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Boy | compound |
| 6 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heavy | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 heavy | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heavy | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heavy | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 heavy | advmod |
| 15 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kept | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 knew | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 equal | mark |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 feet | det |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 equal | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 equal | aux |
| 24 | equal | equal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 knew | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flight | det |
| 26 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flight | compound |
| 27 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 equal | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hawk | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hawk | det |
| 30 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flight | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Antelope Boy | 10 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | 10 not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | boy's heart | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | equal | could | no feet | the swift flight of the hawk | tree rules |
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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