The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 71

Half-way to the north he came to a large tree; and there sat the hawk, drenched and chilled, unable to fly, and crying piteously.

Who acts: Half way · What happens: come, sit, drench, chill, fly, cry · To what, where: large tree, hawk

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 (Half way), 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 way	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Half	punct
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sat	advmod
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hawk	det
18	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drenched	punct
20	drenched	drench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sat	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 chilled	cc
22	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 drenched	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unable	punct
24	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sat	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fly	mark
26	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 unable	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crying	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 crying	cc
29	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sat	advcl
30	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	29 crying	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Half way to the north		a large tree	boy nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	Half way to the north not said here	the hawk	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hawk=Theme
3	drench	participle	Half way to the north not said here				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	chill	participle	Half way to the north not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	fly	to-infinitive	Half way to the north not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cry speech: express	gerund	Half way to the north not said here			piteously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 71