The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 75
[12] Half-way to the west he again passed the hawk shivering and crying in a tree, and unable to fly; but as he was about to turn to the south, the hawk passed him with the customary taunt.
Who acts: rain, hawk · What happens: pass, shiver, cry, fly, be, turn · To what, where: 12 Half way, tree, south, rain
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 (rain, hawk), 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 12 | punct |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 way | flat |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 12 | punct |
| 4 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 way | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Half | punct |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 west | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 west | det |
| 9 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 passed | advmod |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hawk | det |
| 14 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | obj |
| 15 | shivering | shiver | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 hawk | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 crying | cc |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 shivering | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crying | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 unable | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 unable | cc |
| 23 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 passed | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fly | mark |
| 25 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 unable | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 passed | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 passed | cc |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 about | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 about | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 about | cop |
| 31 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 passed | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 turn | mark |
| 33 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 about | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 south | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 south | det |
| 36 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turn | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 about | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hawk | det |
| 39 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 passed | nsubj |
| 40 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 passed | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 passed | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 taunt | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 taunt | det |
| 44 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 taunt | compound |
| 45 | taunt | taunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 passed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | rain | 12 Half way to the west | again | the hawk obj | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hawk=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | shiver | gerund | the hawk not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | the hawk not said here | a tree | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | fly | to-infinitive | rain not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | rain | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | turn | to-infinitive | rain not said here | the south | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to south=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | pass | past | the hawk | rain | with the customary taunt | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory |
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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