The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 76
The smoking of the third cigarette brought another storm, and again the antelope passed the wet hawk half-way, and again the hawk dried its feathers in time to catch up and pass him as he was turning to the east for the home-stretch.
Who acts: smoking, antelope, hawk · What happens: bring, pass, dry, catch up, turn, smoke · To what, where: storm, wet hawk half way, feathers, smoking, east, third cigarette
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 (smoking, antelope, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smoking | det |
| 2 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cigarette | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cigarette | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 cigarette | amod |
| 6 | cigarette | cigarette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smoking | nmod |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 storm | det |
| 9 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 passed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 passed | cc |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 passed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 antelope | det |
| 14 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | nsubj |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 17 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 18 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 way | compound |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 21 way | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 half | punct |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dried | cc |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 dried | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hawk | det |
| 26 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dried | nsubj |
| 27 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 passed | conj |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 29 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dried | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dried | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 catch | mark |
| 33 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 dried | advcl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 catch | compound:prt |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 pass | cc |
| 36 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 catch | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pass | obj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 turning | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 turning | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 turning | aux |
| 41 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 pass | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 east | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 east | det |
| 44 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 turning | obl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 stretch | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 stretch | det |
| 47 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 stretch | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 home | punct |
| 49 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 turning | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the smoking of the third cigarette | another storm | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent storm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | the antelope | the wet hawk half way | again | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | dry | past | the hawk | hawk's feathers | again; time | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient feather=Result | |||
| 4 | catch up | to-infinitive | the hawk not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | the hawk not said here | smoking | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | turn | past · progressive | smoking | the east | for the home stretch | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to east=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | smoke | the third cigarette | nom smoking «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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