The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 73
But just as he reached the north, the hawk--which had become dry after the short rain--caught up and passed him, saying, “We too do this to each other!”
Who acts: boy, hawk, We · What happens: reach, become, catch up, pass, say, do · To what, where: north, boy, this · 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 (boy, hawk, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 reached | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 reached | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 north | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hawk | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hawk | det |
| 10 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 become | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 become | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 become | aux |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 hawk | acl:relcl |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 become | xcomp |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 rain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rain | det |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rain | amod |
| 19 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 caught | punct |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rain | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 caught | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 passed | cc |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 become | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 passed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saying | punct |
| 27 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 passed | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 do | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 do | punct |
| 30 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 do | nsubj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 do | advmod |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 saying | ccomp |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 do | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 each | case |
| 35 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 32 do | obl |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 each | fixed |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 hawk | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hawk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | boy | the north | the hawk obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent north=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | the hawk | after the short rain | dry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | catch up | participle | the hawk not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pass | past | the hawk not said here | boy | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | gerund | the hawk not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present | We | this | to each | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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