The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 82
The last wetting of the hawk’s feathers delayed it so that the antelope reached the hill just ahead; and there, resuming their natural shapes, the two runners came sweeping down the home-stretch, straining every nerve.
Who acts: last wetting, antelope, natural shapes · What happens: delay, reach, resume, come, sweep, strain · To what, where: hawk, hill, home stretch, nerve, feathers
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 (last wetting, antelope, natural shapes), 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 | 3 wetting | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wetting | amod |
| 3 | wetting | wetting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 delayed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 feathers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hawk | det |
| 6 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 hawk | case |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wetting | nmod |
| 9 | delayed | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 delayed | obj |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 reached | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 antelope | det |
| 14 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delayed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hill | det |
| 17 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 ahead | advmod |
| 19 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 15 reached | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 resuming | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 resuming | cc |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 resuming | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 resuming | punct |
| 24 | resuming | resume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 delayed | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shapes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shapes | amod |
| 27 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 came | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 runners | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 runners | det |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 runners | nummod |
| 31 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shapes | appos |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 resuming | ccomp |
| 33 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 came | advcl |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 stretch | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 stretch | det |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stretch | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 home | punct |
| 38 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sweeping | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 straining | punct |
| 40 | straining | strain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 sweeping | conj |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 nerve | det |
| 42 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 straining | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 delayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delay | past | the last wetting of the hawk's feathers | hawk | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent it=Source | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the antelope | the hill | ahead property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | |||
| 3 | resume | gerund | the last wetting of the hawk's feathers not said here | there | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come | past | antelopes's natural shapes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sweep | gerund | antelopes's natural shapes not said here | the home stretch | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stretch=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | strain | gerund | antelopes's natural shapes not said here | every nerve | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nerve=Source | ||||
| 7 | wet | the hawk's feathers | nom wetting «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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